Quotes by Speakers - Page 26

Be the type of friend you would like to have.
Steve Maraboli
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.
Mark Driscoll
Your boyfriend shouldn't be your only friend.
Bethany Jett
Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you GET for it, but what you BECOME for it.
Steve Maraboli
Many say "What goes up must come down." I believe this was spoken by a pessimist. I believe it is vitally important to remember that "What goes up...must have started some place." #workhard
Dr. Jayce O'Neal
I want the peace in knowing that is wasn’t for lack of hustling that I missed a target for my dream. I want to know that the one thing in my control was under control.
Jon Acuff
Some people dream of SUCCESS while other wake up and work hard at it.
Barbara Rubel
Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.
Bryant McGill
As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.
Michelle Moore
Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.
Steve Maraboli
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
Os Guinness
Be a reflection of excellence.
Steve Maraboli
Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance
Bernard Kelvin Clive
The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
Bernard Kelvin Clive
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence
Vince Lombardi Jr.
When you're crying, your tears may be watering the seeds of your come-back.
Steve Maraboli
Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.
Bryant McGill
Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need.
Steve Maraboli
A broken heart bleeds tears.
Steve Maraboli
Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.
Patty Houser
Persistence wears down resistance.
William J. Federer
For years I tried to help people with simple things, such as tension relief through breathing and relaxation, but all they wanted were the drugs. They wanted to numb themselves. They did not want to face their fears or feel better through their own efforts—and they certainly did not want to be illuminated.
Gudjon Bergmann
Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn
Tara Michener
The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combination is motion forward, or growth. Your goal is to find objects of attention that let your cork raise.
Abraham-Hicks
Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.
Richard Rohr
The soul needs meaning as much as the body needs food.
Richard Rohr
Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations.
Steve Maraboli
Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.
Michelle Moore
Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.
Bryant McGill
The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
Bryant McGill
When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.
Emily P. Freeman
Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.
T.F. Hodge
Upholders may struggle in situations where expectations aren't clear or the rules aren't established. They may feel compelled to meet expectations, even ones that seem pointless. They may feel uneasy when they know they're breaking the rules, even unnecessary rules, unless they work out a powerful justification to do so.
Gretchen Rubin
Audiences = expectations. If he thinks you're not watching, he won't need to rebel against your expectations.
Gretchen Rubin
Messy" is a word we use to explain a conflict with an expectation we had. Eliminate the expectation, and you eliminate the "messy".
Steve Maraboli
The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.
Guy Finley
What's the first sign of a lurking, hidden expectation you didn't know you had? Pain! People don't do what we want, things don't happen quickly enough, the weather doesn't cooperate, our bodies don't cooperate. Why are these moments so painful? Because our minds are focused on a static, unchanging, me-centric picture while the dynamic unfolding of a broader life continues around us. There is nothing wrong with expectations per se, as it's appropriate to set goals and work, properly, towards their fruition. But the instant we feel pain over life not going "my way," our expectations have clearly taken an improper turn. Any moment you feel resistance or pain, look for -- and then let go of -- the hidden expectation. Practice giving yourself over to what "you" don't want. Let the line at the store be long. Let the other person interrupt you. Let the nervousness make you shake. Be where your body is, not where your mind is trying to take you.
Guy Finley
Often, men want money to get women, or to use women to get money, or both at the same time.
Bryant McGill
When we came out of the cookhouse, we found the boy's father, the Indian man who had been grazing the horses in the pasture, waiting for us. He wanted someone to tell his troubles to. He looked about guardedly, afraid that the Señora might overhear him.'Take a look at me' he said. I don't even know how old I am. When I was young, the Señor brought me here. He promised to pay me and give me a plot of my own. 'Look at my clothes' he said, pointing to the patches covering his body. 'I can't remember how many years I've been wearing them. I have no others. I live in a mud hut with my wife and sons. They all work for the Señor like me. They don't go to school. They don't know how to read or write; they don't even speak Spanish. We work for the master, raise his cattle and work his fields. We only get rice and plantains to eat. Nobody takes care of us when we are sick. The women here have their babies in these filthy huts.''Why don't you eat meat or at least milk the cows?' I asked.'We aren't allowed to slaughter a cow. And the milk goes to the calves. We can't even have chicken or pork - only if an animal gets sick and dies. Once I raised a pig in my yard' he went on. 'She had a litter of three. When the Señor came back he told the foreman to shoot them. That's the only time we ever had good meat.''I don't mind working for the Señor but I want him to keep his promise. I want a piece of land of my own so I can grow rice and yucca and raise a few chickens and pigs. That's all.' 'Doesn't he pay you anything?' Kevin asked. 'He says he pays us but he uses our money to buy our food. We never get any cash. Kind sirs, maybe you can help me to persuade the master . Just one little plot is all I want. The master has land, much land.'We were shocked by his tale. Marcus took out a notebook and pen. 'What's his name?'. He wrote down the name. The man didn't know the address. He only knew that the Señor lived in La Paz.Marcus was infuriated. 'When I find the owner of the ranch, I'll spit right in his eye. What a lousy bastard! I mean, it's really incredible'. 'That's just the way things are,' Karl said. 'It's sad but there's nothing we can do about it.
Yossi Ghinsberg
What's the story here, Karl?' Kevin asked.'Hard as it is to believe, these people are slaves,' Karl explained.'Slaves?' I asked skeptically.'Well, you might not call them that but they are virtual slaves. They don't receive any pay. They are dealt with harshly. They don't have anywhere else to go''What about the government? Don't they help?' Marcus asked.'The government?' Karl laughed. 'The government my eye! Those generals stay in power several years, make a bundle smuggling drugs, and once they're millionaires, they retire. Some other lousy generals take over from them, and history repeats itself. You think they give a shit what happens to a few lousy Indians?
Yossi Ghinsberg
Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our sin and understand more fully our helplessness.
Barbara R. Duguid
Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
Yasmin Mogahed
Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.
Elisabeth Elliot
Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.
Joyce Meyer
Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
Your life is a reflection… you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.
Steve Maraboli
The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection.
T.F. Hodge
On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appear.
Bryant McGill
Look upon the world with loving eyes and the reflection everyone sees will contain love.
Bryant McGill
To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.
Bryant McGill
Go look in the mirror and have a talk with your real boss
Bryant McGill
People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection of the pain they inflict on themselves.
Bryant McGill
Low-grade pain can be so rooted in your being that the pain begins to look like you, and you begin to look like the pain — it becomes your identity.
Bryant McGill
The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.
Bryant McGill
When you're in the zone of your purpose with passion...time stands still.
T.F. Hodge
Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life’s experience.
Susan C.Young
Your internal thoughts determine your outer world.
Susan C.Young
One would think that if people truly wanted to live incredible lives, they would do everything in their power to create a mindset which helped them get there. Right?
Susan C.Young
More people continue to be and do exactly the things in life that prevent them from getting what they want or from waking up excited about their day.
Susan C.Young