Quotes Tagged "motivational"

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

LAW 46 Never Appear Too Perfect Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.

When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Everything is hard before it is easy

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.