Staying Quotes - Page 20

• I would rather die going to the west than live by staying in the east.

  Xuanzang

  East, West, Live By

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• What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach each element of my programs with perfection. As Im preparing, I build momentum and confidence until I reach a peak of concentration. It is the moment that I feel my best. Then I can bring out one hundred percent, which makes me satisfied with myself. This is my goal.

  Yuna

  Skills, Goal, Perfection

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• Your staying alive means so much more than you really know, or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Mean, Alive, Moments

  "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.

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• Staying curious and open is what makes growth
  possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

  Scott Berkun

  Views, Practice, Temptation

  Scott Berkun (2008). “Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

  Bob Proctor

  Giving

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• Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

  Tom Peters

  Years, Chance, Employed

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• God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.

  Arthur Miller

  Jobs, Years, Design

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• Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Mistake, Fall, New Day

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• Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

  Roberta Flack

  Art, Married, Lifetime

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• How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

  Pema Chodron

  Joy, Train, Conditions

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Evasion, Solutions, Cowardly

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• No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Light, Evil, Giving

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• In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Mother, Home, Generations

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• The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Years, Water, Tree

  Joseph M. Marshall III (2005). “The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History”, p.113, Penguin

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• In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Order, Benefits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.

  Ann Wilson

  Keys, Debt, Wealth

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• There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

  Joan Kirner

  Inspiring, Empowering, Decision

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• Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Self Esteem

  "Demi Lovato, Hounded By Paparazzi In NY, Fights Back And Apologizes To Fans". www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.

  Ellen Goodman

  Jobs, Thinking, Important

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.

  Bob Hope

  Gun, Makeup, Men

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Life, Breathe, Surface

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.102, Macmillan

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• A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.

  Diablo Cody

  People, Curiosity, Maintaining

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• Failure is not falling down but staying down.

  Harvey Mackay

  Fall, Falling Down

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Differences, Entrepreneur

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