Best Personality Quotes for Self-Improvement - page 37

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I\'d live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that\'s the price I\'m willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.
I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.
 Carl Rogers
Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
 William Cowper
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.
 Tom Gjelten
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision
 Nido R Qubein
Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.
 Rory Vaden
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
 Edmund Hillary
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.
 Erwin W. Lutzer
I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.
 LL Cool J
My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.
 Rico Lebrun
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.
 Sonia Sanchez
I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
 Norman Cousins
Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.
People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.
People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.
 Wayne Pacelle
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
 R. A. Lafferty