Quotes!

Dec 27, 2011 13:24

  • An ounce of practice is worth more than ten tons of preaching. -- Mahatma Gandhi

  • Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. -- Norman Vincent Peale

  • Beginnings depend on endings. -- Rick Maurer

  • The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. -- Arthur Ashe

  • Stand up and walk out of your history. -- Phil McGraw

  • You are never a loser until you quit trying. -- Mike Ditka

  • Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -- Marianne Williamson

  • Make your opponents respect your will to win. -- Curtins Borchardt

  • We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. -- Eric Hoffer

  • He who is outside the door has already got a good part of his journey behind him. -- Dutch proverb

  • You just have to walk in the room and be fearless. You can never let people think for a minute that you couldn’t totally take them down. -- Stevie Nicks

  • Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. -- Anne O'Hare McCormick

  • Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, ... it is the staying down. -- Mary Pickford

  • People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. -- St. Augustine

  • Forgetting the true nature of the self is what makes human beings subject to timidity, weakness, fear, and insecurity. -- Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

  • If we accept that feelings are not controllable, it follows that the best thing to do with them is to accept them . . . as they are. -- Patricia Ryan Madson

  • Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies. -- Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.

  • A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Chinese proverb

  • The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. -- James Oppenheim

  • If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. -- Emmet Fox

  • Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -- Margaret Lee Runbeck

  • I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. -- Martha Washington

  • A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. -- Yiddish proverb

  • Life is always now. Your entire life unfolds in this constant Now. Even past or future moments only exist when you remember or anticipate them, and you do so by thinking about them in the only moment there is:this one. -- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

  • When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. -- Carl Rogers

  • If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm. -- Frank Lane

  • The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. -- Johnny Majors

  • What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. -- Oscar Wilde

  • Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

  • You are the joy the world needs. -- Samantha Page

  • Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. -- Benjamin Franklin

  • Love is a gift. Learn to be receptive of that gift. -- Kurt Langner

  • Without deviations from the norm, progress is not possible. -- Frank Zappa

  • The words you speak become the house you live in. -- Hafiz

  • Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. -- Joseph Campbell

  • Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. -- Emily Kimbrough


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