Lasting Quotes - Page 38

• You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

  Homer Rice

  Motivational, Inspiring, Teamwork

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• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

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• The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Together

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• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Compassion, Lasting Happiness

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• I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

  Goldie

  Believe, Long, Lasting Relationship

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• America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Blessed, Greatness

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.242, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Greatness, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

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• Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

  George Meredith

  Song, Singers, Immortality

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8369, Library of Alexandria

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• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

  Barack Obama

  Peace, Rights, Dignity

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.

  Norman Angell

  Real, War, Giving

  "Union of Democratic Control". spartacus-educational.com. October 10, 1916.

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• No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Achieve, Share

  Kofi Annan's speech - Americas - International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2006.

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• I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened.

  Paulo Coelho

  Night, Long, People

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.

  Akio Morita

  Real, People, Trying

  "The Book of Management Wisdom: Classic Writings by Legendary Managers" edited by Peter Krass, (p. 235), 2000.

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• From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them.

  Larry Watson

  Summer, Years, Vivid

  Larry Watson (2010). “Montana 1948: A Novel”, p.15, Milkweed Editions

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• I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

  Willie Nelson

  Hard Work, Texas, Grandparent

  "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin, 2006.

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• Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

  John Wooden

  Art, Goal, Effort

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• Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

  Kent Nerburn

  Life, Importance, Our Lives

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• The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

  George Eliot

  Hero, Years, Land

  Daniel Deronda bk. 6, ch. 42 (1876)

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• Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Squares, Suffering

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• Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Effort, Adherence

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

  Hugo Black

  Self, Lasting Happiness, Purpose

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• Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

  Louis L'Amour

  Long, Actors, Politician

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.104, Bantam

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• The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Long, Becoming, World

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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• Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.

  James Arness

  Pain, Real, Chiropractic Care

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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