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Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Adventure
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A mentality of scarcity - of lack -
is the natural consequence of
viewing the world through eyes of fear.
In contrast, when the world is viewed
through eyes of love,
the future becomes unlimited.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
- Margaret Mead
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Can you achieve your goals?
You can't reach your goal if you haven't
defined your goals.
And you can't succeed if you don't try -
and then pick yourself up
and try again each time you fail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
If future generations are to remember us
more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was created, not just as it looked
when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
In most communities it is illegal
to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly.
Should it not be considered serious international misconduct
to manufacture a general war scare
in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
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