Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 264

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

John D. Rockefeller

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Agatha Christie

Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

Branch Rickey

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Guy Finley

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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

John Atkinson Grimshaw

If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

Stacy London

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

Larry King

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.

Moses Harvey

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

Susanna Clarke

Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.

Amby Burfoot

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Joe Paterno

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Arthur Koestler