Inspiring Quotes - Page 30

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

There are no accidents or coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity - because everything has a frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.