Top 629 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Speakers - Page 2

When you love yourself, you'll feel sorry for those that hate you instead of hating them back.

It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ...... what am I grateful for ...... and I'm not just thinking about them ...... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude

Instead of trying to see things my way, I try to see things her [wife's] way, and if it honestly makes sense then I will submit to her instead of being a tyrant and a dictator.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

To find what we aren't able to find, we must look in a place we haven't looked.

Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.

If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that's not because you're a failure. It's because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.

It certainly makes people question why a man who talks about family values all the time doesn't seem to care that his own sister, not to mention thousands of other Americans, can lose her job just because of her sexual orientation.

I believe you should seek to understand and then be understood.

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Negative people need drama like oxygen. Stay positive, it'll take their breath away.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.

I love Hot Fudge Sundaes; I could die for Hot Fudge Sundaes.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

A lot of time we build on lust that becomes very strong. Yet, when that lust wears off we think that love is running out, but really it's the lust that had an expiration date. We have to know what real love is and if we're really in-love.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Winners take the action that others won't.

Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Once I will warn you, and then I will fire you! I have a zero-tolerance-plus-one policy for gossip. I will teach you once, and then I will fire your butt.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

This is a great time for the 'guerilla marketer.' The days when you used to have to buy expensive TV time and a yellow page ad to get started are gone.

Christians are guilty of the notion that there was a time when people were required to live by the mosaic law, I just don't know that ever was the case.

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Relationships are like a book, in that they are for learning.

We become the books we read.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Don't underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine.

Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Whether you say, 'I can' or 'I can't,' you're right either way.

What's wrong vs Right with you It's not a question of what's wrong with you, it's a question of what's right with you.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

When people get scared, they quit giving.

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility