Inspirational Quotes - Page 138

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

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.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

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

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

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

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.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.