Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 275

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
 Thomas B. Macaulay
[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.
 Ruby Wax
Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.
 Norm Dicks
I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.
 Leonard Lauder
Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.
 James Oliver Curwood
Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.
If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.
I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.
I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.
 Fred Astaire
God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.
 Ernest Holmes
What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
 Mortimer Adler
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
 Ryan Reynolds
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.
 Allen W. Wood
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
 Paul Dudley White
There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
 R. Buckminster Fuller
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.
Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.
 John Dryden