Positive Quotes - Page 22

• Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Space, Occupy Yourself

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  When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Determination, Sunshine

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• Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Smile

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.104, New World Library

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• Love as much as you can from wherever you are.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Love, Inspirational, Loving Someone

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.73, Gibbs Smith

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• The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Success, Goal

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• I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

  Patrick Roy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

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• Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Peace, Buddhist

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• Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspiring, Wise

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• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Success, Famous Inspirational

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• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Positivity

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Attitude, Positivity

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• Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

  William Feather

  Inspiration, Intelligent, People

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Travel, Sassy

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  David Viscott

  Motivational, Fitness, Attitude

  DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

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• If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouraging, Dark, Doors

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• Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

  Diane Sawyer

  Inspiring, Success, Badass

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• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  Sam Elliott

  Inspirational, Change, Thinking

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• Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

  Eileen Caddy

  Inspiration, Intuition, Mind

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• You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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