The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.
Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 75
It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.
Jennifer Hudson
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.
Daniel Alarcon
If they want to take all the belts, they can take them, but they'll never take what I've done and my achievements.
Tyson Fury
Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.
Thomas a Kempis
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.
That's not how politics works - sometimes things move in a rather imperceptible way. There are no fireworks, and then comes a time when change comes unexpectedly. Sometimes change comes with a lot of fireworks, but not always.
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold Geneen
INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL
James Hunter
Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections were to pile before me, a typical young writer, in an implacable mountain. But I was on my way.
Vera Nazarian
Being a siddha master is indeed a great accomplishment, but it is not the same as being enlightened. People confuse siddha masters, who have the power to perform miracles, with enlightened masters who can enter into samadhi.
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
Jean Helion
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
Ralph Barton Perry
I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role.
I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.
Peter Beinart
