Motivational Quotes - Page 52

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

As a man is, so he sees.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

When you know better you do better.

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.