Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 125

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.
 Red Skelton
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
 Norman Douglas
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
 Rob Sheffield
I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.
 Thomas Troward
All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.
 Sandra Scarr
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
 Reinhold Niebuhr
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God\'s gift, that\'s why we call it the present.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.
 Ndabaningi Sithole
Protect your queen always.
 Anonymous
Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.
 Antonio Damasio
I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
 Clarence Darrow
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
 P. Chidambaram
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities and judgement, and, over time, dismantles, from within, the body.
 Charlie Huston