Motivational Quotes - Page 146

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are

Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.