Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 663

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.
 Peter Porter
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.
 Howard Zinn
I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.
 Jose Bautista
Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.
 Salman al-Ouda
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.
 Thomas Nagel
Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one\'s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
 E. F. Schumacher
I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
 Takeshi Kitano
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
 Frank B. Kellogg
What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.
It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to play a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.
 Diane Kruger
Honor does not have to be defended.
 Robert J. Sawyer
We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.
 Tenzin Palmo
The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.
 Euvin Naidoo
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
 Margaret J. Wheatley
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.
 Paul MacCready