Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 8

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.
How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
 Sarah Ban Breathnach
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.
 Federico Zuccari
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
 Gertrude Stein
The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.
 John Allen Fraser
I'm proud that I was one of the first ones out, singing loud and proud.
 K. D. Lang
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
 Earl Nightingale
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
 Benjamin Cheever
Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.
 Mahasi Sayadaw
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices
 Egon Schiele
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
The principal fact of life is the free mind.
The principal fact of life is the free mind.
 Joyce Cary
Chance favors the prepared mind.
 Louis Pasteur