Motivational Quotes - Page 190

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

We don't have to feel negative about weeds. They're a part of life. We need to see them, acknowledge them, focus on the solution, and immediately do whatever it takes to eliminate their influence from our lives.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

There is time for everything.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.

Instead of trying to blend in and be like everyone else, be proud of and celebrate your unique differences and qualities. A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Better hope deferred than none.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it’s the cycle of giving and getting.

We lost because we didn't win.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?