Top 629 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Speakers - Page 3

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

You can't get it all, unless you give it your all.

The easiest way to make money is create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.

Your character is your destiny. Building character is a task for the brave and dedicated. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building character. If you wish to cure minimalism in your own life, to develop a complete commitment to excellence and an absolute rejection of mediocrity, the question you need to start asking yourself is, "What is the most I can do?"

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

Some people are just stuck in their ways and have been brainwashed into believing that credit cards and debt are an unavoidable part of life.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

You have to get new knowledge and force yourself to really implement what you've learned. You have to set boundaries in place for yourself. The important thing is if you don't know real love, someone will teach youself hate.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

What if living your life, naturally created what you wanted?

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.

Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I felt a variation of the fear that a lot of gay people have, that their families will reject them. I thought if I were to come out to the world then I would risk losing them.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Take charge of your environment.

Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.

You can't get anywhere flying under the radar.

Pay your utilities, gas and other basic needs before paying on your debts.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!

The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage.

What you do today will determine how you feel tomorrow.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

Enjoy the journey as much as the destination.

When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.

Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Finding your life less than perfect is a waste of your time.

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?

Habits are a function of your subconscious mind.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so, rather than fear the surrounding culture, and the surrounding cities which predictably results in a bunker mentality the emerging congregation embraces the culture and expects to find God in it" the emerging congregation embraces the culture recognizing that its not all pretty but it embraces the culture and even then expects to find god in it because there is nowhere god isn't. there are many places where the church isn't but I don't think that means there are places where god isn't.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.

You can't hate and ball at the same time

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.