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Quotes & Sayings
Our Deepest Fear
Marianne Williamson "A Return to Love" Ch. 7 Sec. 3
Even if you're on the right track. You will get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. Mark Twain
Success is finding a balance between the perfect and the possible.
Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
Patience is more than a virtue. It’s a valuable tool for adjusting life’s balance. Patience permits us to slow down and see what’s really important.
Worry, truly, is a useless emotion Anxiety amplifies problems. Action solves them.
Carelessness carries a price and that price may come in installments. It’s possible to spend a lifetime paying for one mistake we made in an instant.
Criticism is healthy when we learn from it. It’s only destructive when we brood on it and refuse to let it go.
The best way to be in the right place at the right time is just to keep on doing the right thing to the best of your ability. Timing always favors the persistent.
Behind every successful person there are a lot of unsuccessful years.
Hard work and commitment are like nets we cast in an ocean of possibility. And, we never know exactly what we’re going to haul in.
Successful people sometimes give out and occasionally give in. But they’re successful because they never give up
An apology can’t change or justify the past. But it can create bridges of healing that carry us into the future. Opportunity isn’t always easy to recognize when it knocks. Sometimes it shows up disguised as a disaster.
Usually it’s not some advantage we lack that holds us back, But failure to take advantage of the talents and opportunities we have.
To waste time on the wrong priorities is, ultimately, to waste life.
The formula for success is difficult to follow but easy to state. It’s simply this: Get started and keep going.
Life provides a lot more joy to those whose faces say ‘yes’ to life.
The ego is the only thing that grows without nourishment. Truly great people have learned how to keep theirs in check.
Success rarely explodes into our lives. Rather, it’s developed over time--with commitment, passion and drive.
It isn’t tools or technology that determine success. It’s how they’re used. Having the right stuff doesn’t always require the right stuff.
If success builds self-esteem, it’s failure that creates self-discovery.
Serious decisions deserve due diligence. Second opinions can be helpful. But if we hesitate too long, Some opportunities will fly out of range before we pull the trigger.
Thoughts without actions are powerless. Actions without thought are dangerous.
Sometimes an opportunity is wasted not because we don’t know what to do. Not because we fail to do it--but because we do not do it soon enough.
Years may wrinkle the skin but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; As young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; As young as your hope, as old as your despair. While science seeks ways to lengthen our years, we already know how to enrich our days. That secret lies, not in our genes, but in our attitudes. We have to age. We don’t have to grow old.
Of all the things we may regret, being kind is never one of them. Kindness has a peculiar habit of finding its way back.
In today’s world, cooperation and understanding are essential to survival. Bombs, missiles and troops are no substitute for the moral power of a world acting as a community. No matter how many branches of terrorism we eliminate, it won’t be enough until we effectively get at the roots.
Fame and fortune sometimes comes to those who seek it. But more often, it comes to those who earn it.
To often we assume failure out of habit. And the surest way to guarantee failure is to expect it.
Everybody either has messed up—or will. Winners are not people who have never stumbled. They’re people who’ve refused to stay down.
The best friends are those who care enough to risk our short-term disapproval for our long-term benefit.
There is more to life than increasing its speed. We’ll never find time for anything. If we want time, we have to make it.
What we are building right now, hour by hour, day by day, is our own future. Whether we construct it with care or indifference, It is the future we will someday occupy.
Negative emotions such as fear, sorrow, envy, resentment and hatred are responsible for the majority of our sicknesses. The best way to clear up an ailment could be to give up resentment. We may have to choose between getting even and getting well.
The biggest challenge we face may become manageable if we cut it into smaller chunks. Life is handled best one day, one hour, one project at a time.
The difference between ordinary and brilliant may be as simple as learning to use wisely what we already have.
It’s a fact: The less we have to say sometimes, The longer it takes us to say it.
Talk is easy. Walking the talk can be harder. A promise is like the swing of a golf club; It’s only effective if you follow through. There may be times when a word is sufficient. But words are a poor substitute for action.
The reason some people have all the answers is because they haven’t heard all the questions.
You can’t always choose what’s going to happen to you, but you can choose your response. As in: My barn has burned down. Now I can see the moon.
Total silence can be the most majestic sound you’ll never hear. Silence so awesome can be disconcerting. But it grows on you. And for the first time in a long time, you find you actually can hear yourself—your own thoughts, your anxieties and aspirations, your fears and dreams. In the silence, the how-tos of life slowly give way to the what for!
Judging people is always risky. Pre-judging them is downright foolhardy.
True greatness is measured by the ability to appreciate the success of others— Even when there’s no personal benefit.
For all of our technological advancements and sophisticated computers, we’ve yet to come up with anything as awesome as the human mind. The human mind is the one tool that hasn’t been improved on much over the centuries.
Words are great for creating action plans so long as we don’t use them as a substitute for action. When we try to disguise a tough challenge with easy words, we’re only fooling ourselves.
Just because something is in print doesn’t make it true. When you read it in the paper or see it on TV doesn’t make it a fact, and that is a fact you can count on.
A friend is someone who knows the song in our heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
When your life is full, you have no life. Our lives are frittered away in detail. When fun becomes work, it isn’t fun anymore. When we overcomplicate happiness, we lose it. It is in the simple things all around us that we may find our greatest pleasure, provided we’re not too busy to notice them.
We’ve elevated the notion of not judging others to the level of sacrement. We ignore what we know instinctively to embrace a culturally acceptable message of irrational tolerance. |
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