Quotes by Speakers - Page 2

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.
Barbara Sher
The rewards go to the risk-takers those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer fuller life for themselves.
Susan RoAne
Competition can damage self-esteem create anxiety and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.
Mariah Burton Nelson
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
Barbara Sher
Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.
Alan Watts
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't.
Clarence S. Darrow
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Grenville Kleiser
They say "You can't give a smile away it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around comes around.
Susan RoAne
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
If you constantly think of illness you eventually become ill if you believe yourself to be beautiful you become so.
Shakti Gawain
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
Cats are angels with fur.
Sark
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
Allen Klein
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
Grenville Kleiser
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
Patricia Fripp
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.
Anne Lamott
Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.
Alan Watts
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world but he knows he can't.
Clarence S. Darrow
To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham
Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Grenville Kleiser
They say "You can't give a smile away it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around comes around.
Susan RoAne
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
If you constantly think of illness you eventually become ill if you believe yourself to be beautiful you become so.
Shakti Gawain
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
Cats are angels with fur.
Sark
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow
Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.
Allen Klein
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
Maeve Binchy
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
Grenville Kleiser
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
Patricia Fripp
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.
Anne Lamott
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.
Grenville Kleiser
The first thing each morning and the last thing each night suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself silently or aloud until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
Grenville Kleiser
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.
Russell Green
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial industry and singleness of purpose. As a result they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser
Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want and then when you see what the other fellow got you wish you had taken that.
Clarence Darrow
I'd like to go to assertiveness training class. First I need to check with my wife.
Adam Christing
A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is "What would love do now?"
Neale Donald Walsch
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love . . . We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
When we can laugh through our tears we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad but they cannot be all that bad.
Allen Klein
Shared laughter is love made audible.
Izzy Gesell
In every job relationship or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are
Allen Klein
Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe's way of knocking on your mind's door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good I The message is that you are happy and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.
Steve Chandler
There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we don't. Still the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.
Allen Klein
Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger you can't hold fear you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.
Steve Bhaerman
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
Michael Pritchard