Best Personality Quotes for Self-Improvement - page 20

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
 Walter Scott
There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —
Take nothing for granted. Make an emotional discovery as often as you can find one in every scene. Ask yourself: What is new?
 Michael Shurtleff
I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others.
 Grace Kelly
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
 Daniel Goleman
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.
 Marsha M. Linehan
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.
 Cheryl Strayed
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
 Donald Miller
You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.
 Chris Bauer
My attitude is that when we put a youngster in harm's way, somebody who wears our nation's uniform in harm's way, he or she deserves the absolute best.
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.
 Henry Cloud
You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.
 Mike Quade
Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.
 Jerry Bridges
As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.
 Wentworth Miller
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation\'s television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.
 Alistair Cooke
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.