Inspirational Quotes - Page 511

It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

Become the person who would attract the results you seek.

There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

I buy when other people are selling.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Amma Theodora said: A certain monk, afflicted by many sorrows, said to himself, "Leave this place." With these words he began to put his sandals on his feet, and suddenly he saw the devil in the form of a man sitting in the corner of his cell. The devil was also putting on his sandals. He said to the monk, "Are you leaving here because of me? Well then, wherever you go, I will be there before you."

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Love is not about getting - but giving.