Motivational Quotes - Page 56

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

A person hears only what they understand.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.