Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 225

Luck? I don\'t know anything about luck. I\'ve never banked on it and I\'m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn\'t.
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
 Lucille Ball
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
 Ernest Cline
When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.
 Thomas Metzinger
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
 Bob Marley
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.
We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.
 Abdu'l-Bahá
Stop stewing and start doing!
Stop stewing and start doing!
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
 Edmund Hillary
The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
 Angela Carter
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Every great business is built on friendship.
Every great business is built on friendship.
 James Cash Penney
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.
 Clive Barker