Motivation Quotes - Page 109

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.

We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

You become what you think about

Never complain about what you permit.

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].

You win a race, the next race it’s a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That’s what is funny. But that’s what is interesting. And that’s what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.