Motivational Quotes - Page 218

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.

The world is very beautiful and very wonderful. Life can be very easy when love is your way of life. You can be loving all the time. This is your choice. You may not have a reason to love, but you can love because to love makes you so happy. Love in action only produces happiness. Love will give you inner peace. It will change your perception of everything.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.