Welcome to the podcast “ Daily Powerful Quotes”. Join me to get inspired from the wisdom of words being spoken, read and written by thought leaders, writers, philosophers, business tycoons, artists, singers, explorers & people from all walk of life. Every quote has the power to inspire.
Life is like riding a bicycle you have to keep moving to find your balance.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Books are a hard bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people look at a lot of things but never see anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.
There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose etc. Each man’s own taste is the standard, and a majority vote can not decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They are done by a team of people.
When you correct your mind everything else will fall into place.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
With the silent mind comes a widening of the consciousness and it can turn at will towards any point in the universal reality to know there what it needs to know.
All the tragedy in the work in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is best given by producing harmony in ones own life.
The body itself is a screen and partially reveal the light that is blazing inside your presence.
We participate in the forming of the future by virtue of our capacity to conceive of and respond to new possibilities, and to bring them out of imagination and try them in actuality.
Suffering may force a new perspective and perception about what is reality. It can weaken the ego through repeated frustration just enough to allow a giving up or surrendering, which opens the person to the possibility of transcending his or her previous belief systems and levels of consciousness.
The shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to have a sense of humour.
My fashion mantra, if I have one at all, is amuse and confuse, relax and enjoy. I am all about freedom of expression. I reserve the liberty and freedom to change my mind and clothes as often as I can.
Success is not about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way. The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart is attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for.
When you believe something can be done..... your mind will find the ways to do it.
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and it’s way with care. And let it spring from love, born out to f concern for all beings.
Just remember : people tend to resist that which is forced upon them. People tend to support that which they help to create.
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious
Of the good leader, when the task is done, the people will say, ‘ we did it ourselves ‘
The true voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own
First comes thought; then organisation of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Just remember: people tend to resist that which is forced upon them. People tend to support that which they help create.
The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people’s thinking
Metaphor, that’s how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway,
I know that I am not the most easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I do not know how not to.
Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There is no other definition of it.
Today’s quote will inspire you to understand and appreciate the power of writing.