Quotes by Speakers - Page 67

You are likely the greatest obstacle to achieving your own dreams.
Bryant McGill
When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.
Bryant McGill
Hopefully and devoutly focus on your greater possibilities.
Bryant McGill
If you live with values for yourself, then you become of great value to all who know you.
Bryant McGill
If you were really humble you would be great, because humility would never squander the magnificent gift of life.
Bryant McGill
There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.
E'yen A. Gardner
You are great in Christ and you are powerful beyond measure!
Deaquelynn Williams
You want a great life? Well, greatness is on the other side of that f***ing wall... don't just go over it, go through it! What are you waiting for?
Steve Maraboli
True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It's about why and how you serve the number of people you serve.
Damilola Oluwatoyinbo
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
Steve Maraboli
Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
Anne Lamott
I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.
Chris Howard
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
Bryant McGill
Ladies, most of you have no idea how beautiful you are. Don't let mean words from an insecure soul blind you from the truth of your beauty. You are beautiful by design... just the way you are.
Steve Maraboli
When I tell you that you’re beautiful, I don’t just mean your appearance. I mean all of you; who and what you are, is beautiful.
Steve Maraboli
If you look for the beautiful, for a solution, for the positive, then you've won at life.
Sue Fitzmaurice
Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character.
Ken Poirot
The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless blood-soaked borders and battlefields of humanity's great failure as a humane species.
Bryant McGill
We huddle tightly together as cowards, protecting the ranks of our false collective identity from "less-human" intruders, when the only obvious and sane truth is that we are all the same human beings.
Bryant McGill
Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable of in broad daylight than what a ghost is capable of at night.
Steve Maraboli
A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human.
T.F. Hodge
If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and what they are actually (in truth, not in their limited idea) capable of doing, becoming, and achieving in the world.
Emily Gowor
One of the greatest gift you can give another human being whi is going through adversity is HOPE.
Shaka Senghor
Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them.
Yasmin Mogahed
Just as only one discordant note has the power to disturb an entire symphony, the accordance between a body and its soul can be a broken by only one discordant event. To ensure and maintain an optimal fit, one must deliberately and continuously choreograph the equilibrium of the body, mind, and soul.
Ina Catrinescu
Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.
Steve Maraboli
It almost feels like at some point life whacks you on top of the head and hands you a list of all the things you can keep. The list is surprisingly long. You can keep letters. You can keep trying. You can keep secrets and you can try your hardest to keep promises. You can keep your eyes on the road. You can keep his sweatshirt, the one he left on the living room floor. You can keep photos and you can keep the memories. But you cannot keep people. People are not things - you can't keep them.
Hannah Brencher
As I enlarged my vision to see the bigger picture of my dad’s full life, I was better able to let go of being stuck in memories of its end.
Lisa J. Shultz
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood
Richard Paul Evans
How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.
Brennan Manning
Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong.
Bryant McGill
Shouldn't it be atheists, believing they are not being watched, who commit virtually all the crimes and fill up all the prisons, while people who believe in an omnipresent god lead spotless lives out of either respect or fear? But this is far from the world we see.
Guy P. Harrison
Few people can present a completely secular argument detailing why abusing toddlers is objectively wrong. But that hardly stops them from recognizing this moral truth even if they can't articulate their reasons in strictly secular terms.
Scott Klusendorf
If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.
Scott Klusendorf
There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.
Bryant McGill
Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.
Dan Millman
We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, "Does this show respect for GodPeopleSelf?
Pam Farrel
It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.
T.F. Hodge
On average, around 500,000 people die on the planet every year as a result of intentional violence and homicide. These acts span domestic violence, war, terrorism, infanticide, gang violence, honor killings and state executions. Many of these deaths pass relatively unnoticed while some attract attention.
Chris Rhyss Edwards
A world that denies – or worse, downplays - the existence of child soldiers, honor killing victims and parents forced to commit infanticide is a world in denial. Gross incidence such as these will only persist for as long as people choose to turn their faces away.
Chris Rhyss Edwards
The rule: when energy, 'negative' as it may be, moves without resistance, it easily sublimates and becomes raw energy of power and presence; resistance to it makes it freeze in its current state. For this reason, morality not only does not help our sexuality develop but also forces it to stay as it is.
Shai Tubali
Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.
Shai Tubali
Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.
Bryant McGill
Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
Bryant McGill
In a world of hate, love is the revolution.
Bryant McGill
Subject to the law(s) of nature, hate is born to die
T.F. Hodge
How would your life be different if instead of spending your energy and focus on hating those who hate you, you spent your energy and focus on loving those who love you?
Steve Maraboli
When you hate something, you chain yourself to it.
Steve Maraboli
You say you love your wife. You depend on her; she has given you her body, her emotions, her encouragement, a certain feeling of security and well-being. Then she turns away from you; she gets bored or goes off with someone else, and your whole emotional balance is destroyed, and this disturbance, which you don’t like, is called jealousy. There is pain in it, anxiety, hate and violence. So what you are really saying is, ‘As long as you belong to me I love you but the moment you don’t I begin to hate you.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don’t waste your time hating me; you can’t change me. Instead, hate your impotent life; THAT you can change.
Steve Maraboli
The only thing sadder than hateful people’s willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.
Steve Maraboli
There is no truth I hate, it is blinded by rage.
E'yen A. Gardner
Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.
T.F. Hodge
Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Matthew Kelly
Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?
Bryant McGill
Your love for beauty has been perverted, repressed and savaged by hateful and controlling elements in the world.
Bryant McGill
Anyone who hates anyone, only hates themselves.
Bryant McGill
Our heart is the key to liberating a generation that has been bred to hate.
E'yen A. Gardner
I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…
Steve Maraboli
A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.
T.F. Hodge