E.L. James Quotes

Act the part and you will become the part.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

I know I often get a job because of how I look. I hope that I keep the job because of how I act.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Evil then results from imperfection.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

The wisest fool in Christendom.

I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

I close my eyes, and think of water.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Chance favors those in motion.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.