Things Quotes

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I like to learn about things.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.