Top 629 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Speakers - Page 9

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away-that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project-you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.

There are several things to be learned about money from Scripture, and the concepts of generosity and giving are in there.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.

Everyone has an inner hero that they have glimpsed from time to time, just waiting to break free Now is the time to tap into your true hero potential.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions!

The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that.

You don't need to do anything to be loved. Just be who you know you are. It's the only way to experience real love.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself.

There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion.

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

Make no apologies for who you are.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it.

I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.

Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.

One of the reasons that I think the first video was successful was that it wasn't overproduced. So for the second one, it was shot on several different cameras and one of them was an HD camera, and it was so clear and so clean that it almost looked overproduced.

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

You can't be afraid to speak the truth. If you're speaking truthfully - no matter if you're White, Black, Hispanic, Asian - if it's the truth, it's the truth! And if that's what you're telling, you have no reason to be fearful, or, worry about people trying to diffuse what you're doing. Because, if you're speaking the truth, they can't beat the truth.

No matter how exceptional your product, you won't benefit financially if you can't sell it.

Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.

There's about to be a shift in your life. Get ready for your blessings. You've been through enough and a breakthrough is on the way. Don't doubt it, just claim it!

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Ask 'What' and 'When.' The 'How' will naturally be revealed.

I believe the media pretty much dictates the way relationships are handled, even in the way we handle ourselves. Abuse, cheating, threesomes, it's inspired by music and television. Irresponsible artists and writers with a hidden agenda, just working against the moral fabric that God intended for us to have.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Either create your own journey or you'll become a part of someone else's.

Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.

You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it!

When you know how to make money, you're obligated to.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

You want a woman who shares your belief and your faith because that is usually your core. So, you want a woman whom you know can stand on that same foundation you both equally embrace and share. You also want a woman who is ambitious but also knows how to balance it with family.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

Winners win in life because they win the battle in their mind first!