Conditions Quotes

• Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Sorry, Life And Love

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• Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

  Doris Lessing

  Design, Impossible, Recognition

  "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1962.

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• A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

  E. B. White

  Waiting, Paper, Ideals

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.209, Cornell University Press

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• A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Self, Decision

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Leadership, Destiny

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

  John Lubbock

  Mind, Results, Circumstances

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• We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

  Stephen Covey

  Self Esteem, Creativity, Accomplishment

  Interview With Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Character, Personality, Indispensable

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• You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.

  Helmut Newton

  Would Be, Should, Feels

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• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  Irving Babbitt

  Discipline, Criticism, Standards

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.114, Transaction Publishers

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• While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Science, Race, Hands

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

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• It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

  Dee Hock

  Organization, Leader, Hierarchy

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• Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Inspirational, Money, Character

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• Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

  E. W. Howe

  Success, Business, Teaching

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• You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2016

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• I love existing in pre big bang conditions.

  Joe Rogan

  Bangs, Bigs

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• God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

  Ellen G. White

  Humble, Promise, Obedience

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• Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Successful

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.72, NYU Press

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• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Religion, Tests

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• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Success, Doe

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• [With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

  Thomas Demand

  Forever, Vision, Moments

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• Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Meat Eating, Evil

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• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Giving, Special

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