Motivational Quotes - Page 161

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

As you think, so shall you become.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

When you're through changing you're through.

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.