Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 303

When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!
When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
 Eddie Obeng
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
 Madeleine Albright
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
 J. G. Holland
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
 Henri Matisse
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
 Lois Lowry
The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
 Jean Piaget
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
 Michael Flatley
Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.
 Jacques Chirac
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.
 Jean Baptiste Massillon
Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.
 Antony Garrett Lisi
Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility.
 Kenneth Clark
Good appearance doesn’t make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
 Tobias Smollett
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things"-the norms of human action.
 Russell Kirk