About Life Quotes
In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.
Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.
Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.
And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.
It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.
You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.
Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.
I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.
If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.
But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.
Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.
It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.
I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?
Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there
No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow
Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.
Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.