Motivational Quotes - Page 217

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

The only way around is through.

Mind is all that counts.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you're an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream.

When working out, play your favorite music loudly for an extra boost of energy.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

We fear the things we want the most.

We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique, incomparable. That's why I say that this is a paradox: those who search fail, and those who don't bother, suddenly attain.

The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number of rebels, a rebellious spirit, then our days on the earth are numbered. We have to change our consciousness, create more meditative energy in the world, create more lovingness.