Motivational Quotes - Page 208

One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

The direction we're heading is more important than individual results.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

Life is too short to be small.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.

If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.