Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 145

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
 Neal A. Maxwell
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
 Edna St. Vincent Millay
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
 George Berkeley
The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.
 Andy Andrews
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
 Gene Spafford
The first step in this process of mindfulness is radical self-acceptance .
 Stephen Batchelor
Criticism is the price of ambition.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.
Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.
 Arianna Huffington
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
 Marianne Faithfull
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.
 Will Tuttle
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.
 Steven Brust
If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.
 Gregory Bateson
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
 Ronald Fisher
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.
 Larry King
The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.
 Roxane Gay
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
 Anatole France
Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable