Lasting Quotes - Page 8

• Start with changing behaviors, not mindsets. It is much easier to 'act your way into new thinking' than to 'think your way into new actions.' Recurring and consistent performance results from behavior change will lead to lasting changes in the way people feel, think, and believe in the long run.

  Jon Katzenbach

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  20 Copy quote

• My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and precious. I have lasting memories of those stories because the experience was special.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Mother, Children, Memories

  11 Copy quote

• Heads of warring nations could learn a lot about how to achieve lasting peace by watching dogs and cats who live in the same house.

  Blaize Clement

  Dog, Cat, House

  Blaize Clement (2010). “Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.26, Minotaur Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Journey, Mind

  101 Copy quote

• It is a basic human need that everyone wants to
  live a happy life. For this, one has to experience
  real happiness. The so-called happiness that one
  experiences by having money, power, and
  indulging in sensual pleasures is not real
  happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting.
  For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness,
  one has to make a journey deep within oneself and
  get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper
  levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at
  the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy
  at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Happy Life, Journey

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing

  274 Copy quote

  Show source

• Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Passion, First Love, Love Is

  "Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study".

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth and lasting international cooperation cannot be attained; there are few of us who do not appreciate the vital truth of the words, "If God does not build the house, those who build it build in vain."

  Sumner Welles

  Religious, Appreciation, Appreciate

  4 Copy quote

• Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

  Isocrates

  Friendship, Men, Giving

  "Complete Works of Isocrates".

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• ... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity, but outcome. Without that you can't seriously talk about a democratic state... These concepts of the common good have a long life. They lie right at the core of classical liberalism, of Enlightenment thinking... Like Aristotle, [Adam] Smith understood that the common good will require substantial intervention to assure lasting prosperity of the poor by distribution of public revenues.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Friendship, Passion

  73 Copy quote

• Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Lasting Change, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

  Alan Page

  Football, Zero, Games

  15 Copy quote

• Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.

  Watchman Nee

  Long, Victory, Foundation

  Watchman Nee (1991). “The Word of the Cross”, p.14, Living Stream Ministry

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Inspiring, Spiritual

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

  Dennis Weaver

  Long, Full Potential, Spirit

  Dennis Weaver (2001). “All the World's a Stage”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Learning, Wish

  11 Copy quote

• Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Exercise

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.315, University of Illinois Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Fighting, Dark

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Office, Feelings

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

  Sister Parish

  Beautiful, Past, Design

  45 Copy quote

• Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet state of equilibrium-impossible to achieve in an evolving system. Though refraining from harm is an essential first step, lasting peace is created by actively redressing harm done. Peace is a creative process of actively joining I and thou into a co-creative we. It requires authentic communication, empathic listening, and wildly creative solutions.

  Anodea Judith

  Peace, Communication, Creativity

  15 Copy quote

• Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

  Stephen Covey

  Fun, Pursuit Of Happiness, Self

  9 Copy quote

• We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

  Joshua Foer

  Art, Memories, Habit

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.188, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.

  Alek Wek

  Struggle, Opportunity, Light

  10 Copy quote

• This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.

  Bo Lozoff

  Real, Responsibility, Lasting Change

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.41, Penguin

  35 Copy quote

  Show source