David Viscott Quotes

• The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

  David Viscott

  Life, Giving, Purpose

  David Viscott (2003). “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

  David Viscott

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

  David Viscott

  Emotional, People, Giving

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• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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• You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

  David Viscott

  Motivational, Positive, Fitness

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

  David Viscott

  Self, Goal, Path

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• If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

  David Viscott

  Risk, Growth, Get Better

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• The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

  David Viscott

  Love, Marriage, Wish

  David Viscott (1986). “The Language of Feelings”, Pocket

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• To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

  David Viscott

  Hurt, Failure, Thinking

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

  David Viscott

  Differences, Shining, Up To You

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• Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

  David Viscott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Taken

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• You don't have to try, you just have to be.

  David Viscott

  Trying, Information

  David Viscott (2003). “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You are the only one who has to live your life.

  David Viscott

  Live Your Life

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

  David Viscott

  Goal, Important, Action

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• There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

  David Viscott

  Beauty, Strong, Pain

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• Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

  David Viscott

  Time, Easier, Really Mean

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

  David Viscott

  Loss, Want, Imagine

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• Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

  David Viscott

  Believe, People, Criminal Mind

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• Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.

  David Viscott

  Loss, Keys, Wish

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• If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

  David Viscott

  Character, Angel, Growth

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• People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

  David Viscott

  People, Accomplishment, Lists

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• Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

  David Viscott

  Trying, Today, Way

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• Lists have always implied social order.

  David Viscott

  Order, Lists, Social

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• Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

  David Viscott

  Water, Risk, Toes

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• The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

  David Viscott

  Clay, Stones, Lists

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