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I hope you find these Beverly Sills Quotes inspiring and motivational.
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
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Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
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
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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