Motivational Quotes - Page 165

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

I dream for a living.

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.