Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 124

I\'m never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.
I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.
Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
 E. L. Konigsburg
The only world in which "defeat" exists as a reality is the one darkened by the false idea that what may have happened to us a moment ago is the same as what's possible for us to achieve now.
 Guy Finley
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
 Carol Grace
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
 Billy Bob Thornton
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.
 Amory Lovins
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.
 Sanford Meisner
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
 Erik Weihenmayer
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
 Dan Millman
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
 Frank Lloyd Wright