Inspirational Quotes - Page 208

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

I learned that you should breath it in, breath your life in and enjoy it. Always be optimistic and be nice to people, open to people. Follow your dreams but make sure that you know what your dreams are. If you find something really great, don’t screw it up, don’t mess it up but hang on to it. You never know how and when it ends

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.