Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 403

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
 Pierre Corneille
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.
 Peter Ackroyd
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
 Francois Rabelais
To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
 Scilla Elworthy
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
 Anthony de Mello
There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".
Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.
 Arthur Lydiard
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
 Richard Courant
There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.
The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.
 S. N. Goenka
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
 Arthur Ashe
I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.
 Will Ferrell
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.
 Alice Foote MacDougall