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Willingly Quotes (page 598)

Seven Steps to Success1) Make a commitment to grow daily.2) Value the process more than events.3) Don't wait for inspiration.4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.5) Dream big.6) Plan your priorities.7) Give up to go up. John C. Maxwell
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t. T. S. Eliot
The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren. Kurt Vonnegut
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure..."
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may. Martin Luther King jr.
Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair. Honore de Balzac
Chuck Klosterman quote: "Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words'..."
Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me Chuck Klosterman
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing. Rumi
Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked."Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure. Paulo Coelho
I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying. Woodrow Wilson
Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the... Martin Heidegger
Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town. Bill Bryson
Here he was holding the clear proof of the existence of other skies, but at the same time without having to ascend beyond the celestial spheres, for he intuited many worlds in a piece of coral. Was there any need to calculate the number of forms which the atoms of the Universe could create--burning at the stake all those who said their number was not finite--when it sufficed to meditate for years on one of these marine objects to realize how the deviation of a single atom, whether willed by... Umberto Eco
Henry David Thoreau quote: "No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at..."
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. Henry David Thoreau
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant."
Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state...Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. James Allen

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