Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 284

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.

Georges Bernanos

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

Matt Nix

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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To be a champion you must live like one.

George Bernard Shaw

Speech is the mirror of action.

Solon

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

Grimes

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Michael Parenti

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

Tito Colliander

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

Ann Patchett

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

Elton John

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

Angela Merici

There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.

Don't believe everything you think.

Unknown

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

Douglas Crimp

Action achieves more than words.

And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'

Dick Gephardt

I watch a lot of television and I watch a lot of film and I hate when you watch the action sequences - and I always tell when they use a stunt man - and then they put the actor in and you can tell these actors haven't done anything.

Raymond Cruz

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Start where you are, use what you have.

Start where you are, use what you have.

Arthur Ashe

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

V. S. Pritchett