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People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Related topics: Motivational Values Goals Purpose
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
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Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
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
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate,
separated from everything ... And they're not.
They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.
- the movie Powder
Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I am ME.
I am not my attachments.
I am not my possessions.
I am not the people in my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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