Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 323

With mind distracted, never thinking, \
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman
 Huston Smith
Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.
 Jerry Bridges
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
 John Burroughs
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
 Charles Henry Parkhurst
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
 Lou Holtz
Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on.
 Joe Vitale
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
 Frederic Bastiat
If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.
If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.
All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.
 Cathleen Schine
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
 Henri Bergson
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
 Albert Ellis
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family.
 George S. Patton
Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.
Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.
 Cherie Carter-Scott
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.