Inspirational Attitude Quotes - Page 8

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Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

Life is too short to be miserable for 40+ hours a week.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities.

You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

Life was not meant to be live alone.

If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.

Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily "the truth" at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

Out of all the things in life sometimes its the kindness you cant repay that really hurt.

Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him

Make stress work as the fuel inside, not as the oil-spill on the road.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

When you decided to share your dreams with others be aware of discouraging response. Don't try to justify yourself when it happens. Keep calm and keep your eyes on the prize (your dreams).

try not just to become a person of success but rather a person of value.

...and they all lived as happily as they allowed themselves to be.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them.

A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.

Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys. But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes.

As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

In times of great darkness, courage lights the way home.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every moment with love, grace and gratitude.

Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous

Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who's always near and never far

To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.

...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there’s no glamorous work. You don’t get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

Your real journey starts from the point when you realize that your life, ambition, success, dreams, achievements, future, everything is on your own.

Hey, mister, I don’t think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.

Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

There are no failures. There are only experiences and our reactions to them.

I don’t want to be that girl who’s nothing without her boyfriend. I want to be a reflection of what I love—of who I am on my own, not just an empty echo of who I love. Does that make sense?” “You think I’d overwhelm you?” he asked. “We’d overwhelm each other.

Don't JustDon't just learn, experience.Don't just read, absorb.Don't just change, transform.Don't just relate, advocate.Don't just promise, prove.Don't just criticize, encourage.Don't just think, ponder.Don't just take, give.Don't just see, feel.Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.Don't just talk, act.Don't just tell, show.Don't just exist, live.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it

Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

dumb cunts vote for whoever throws the biggest promotional budget at them

To be reborned many times over, you must unleash the power of inertia. But must you go out every time and reach for your highest potential?

Being yourself is the one thing you can always be the best at because only you can do it.

...he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.

Make peace with yourself before you move forward. Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

If you can, judge less and observe more.

The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.

I used to measure myself against other people, but I always came up short. Now, I try to figure out what I really want, and measure myself against that.

I'm off the rails, tipping the scales, following the trail, delving into my own custom made form of outer space.

One of the plagues of our day is that it's easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless in the face of massive violence, poverty and injustice around the globe...One of the greatest needs in this country is for us to have some hope, and to feel empowered that as ordinary people we can make a difference.

Knowledge comes from leaning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.