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“Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.”

Want Made Asks Possibility Infinite Setting Settings Dawn Nothingness God's Love Infinite Possibilities

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.”

Stills Ideas Groups Example Prove Eating Sitting Bravery Setting Settings Acceptable Setting An Example Acts Of Bravery

Author:Anneli Rufus

“While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.”

Knows Lying Secret Emotional Truth Is Cost Connections Betrayal Setting Settings Damage Privacy Secrecy Violation

Author:Bell Hooks

“You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.”

Thinking Knows Rewards Setting Settings Precedent

Book:The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On

“How many times have I told you, Magnus? Behave professionaly in a professional setting. Which means no being rude to Nephilim, and also no getting attached to Nephilim." "I never get attached to Nephilim!" Magnus protested. Ragnor coughed, and in the midst of the cough said something that sounded like "blerondale." "Well," said Magnus. "Hardly ever.”

Wells Mean Said Setting Settings Behave Midst Rude Well Said Nephilim Being Rude

Author:Cassandra Clare

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.”

Motivational Motivation Goal Work Half Habit Victory Gains Convinced Setting Setting Goals Life Goal Goal Achievement Goals And Life Inspirational Goal Setting Motivation Goal Setting Realistic Goals Victory And Success

Author:Sarah T. Bolton

“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps ... as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.”

Way Firsts Whole Lasts Time Grows Wind Scene Let Me Breaths Setting Passing Passings Settings Breeze Spiders Strands Bathtubs Prehistoric Ferns Spider Web Planters

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“Begin with the end in mind.”

Source: Vision: Defining Your Destiny in Life

“Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.”

Inspirational Important Goal Failing Paper Meetings Rewards Setting Settings Target Penalties

Author:Pat Summitt

“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.”

Ifs Men Want Long Leadership Work Inspiring Saws Land He Man Tools Woods Setting Boat Settings Sail Organize New Beginnings Stitches Setting Sail

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.”

Inspirational Enough Goal Secret Creativity Inspire Exciting Setting Settings Graduation Setting Goals Ignite True Power Unleashing

Author:Tony Robbins

“The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.”

“Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.”

Men Life Destiny Forever Affair Setting Settings Streams Tides One Direction

Book:Among My Books

Source: Among My Books

“Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.”

Moving Letting Go Setting Moving Forward Settings Moving On Goodbye Loving Someone Letting Go And Moving On Moving Forward In Life Just Let Go Moving On In Life Inspirational Moving On Forward In Life

Author:Kate Winslet

“Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.”

“The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.”

Way Religion Goodness Benefits Debt Setting Settings Best Things Thank God Repaying

Author:Daniel Dennett

“God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.”

Men Space Effort Limits Intention Setting Settings Conquer Space Exploration Space Travel

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.”

Self Grows Sin Results Business Learning Becoming Transformation Complexes Favors Setting Settings Becoming More Unselfish Old Self

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.”

Courage Thirds Bravery Nine Setting Settings Courageous Cowardly Fear And Courage Fear Courage Foolhardy Coward And Courage

Author:Joseph Epstein

“All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.”

Night Silence Heard Moon Bird Dancing Rose Dance Setting Settings Dancer Tunes Waking All Night Violin Just Dance Hush Flutes Bassoon

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.”

“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”

Source: The Double Win

“It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.”

Moving Goal Exciting Setting Moving Forward Settings Setting Goals

Author:Scott Peterson

“It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.”

“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.”

Men Should War Spiritual Law Economic Morality Devil Committed Corruption Alcohol Setting Settings Cowardice Idolatry False Gods

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We make no apologies for setting high standards.”

Positive Standards Setting Settings Apology Being Positive High Standards

Author:Nancy L. Zimpher

“Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!”

Mean Poor Example Communication Setting Settings Good Examples Means Of Communication Setting A Good Example

Author:Jan Carlzon

“I love it. I love the challenge of it, working with kids every day, setting goals for myself and the program. I feel it was what I was meant to do. You remember your own experiences, and you want to do it for someone else.”

Want Feels Kids Remember Goal Challenges Program Athlete Setting Settings Setting Goals

Author:Jennifer Rizzotti

“Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.”

People Way Long Hard Motivational Achieve Hard Work Commitment Harder Setting Settings These Days Long Way

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.”

“In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to prove that there's no God, ... That's their bias to start with.”

Trying Prove Decided Atheist Setting Settings Bias

Author:Ken Ham

“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.”

Ifs Feels Long Care Suffering Term Perspective Sake Caring Setting Settings Long Term Self Care Exhausted Burnout Demoralized

Author:Dalai Lama

“An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.”

“Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon the outlawing of the cross-bow by Papal authority. Setting up the machinery for international law and order must surely precede disarmament. The Wild West did not abandon its shooting irons till after sheriffs and courts were established.”

“Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.”

Men Mean War Knowing Lifetime Setting Ships Settings Sail Routes Favour Crossings Harbour Soundness Setting Sail

Book:The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

Source: The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi

“If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.”

Ifs Giving Culture Justice Risk Diversity Social Justice Oneself Setting Settings Incapable

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.”

Whole Levels Inspire Products Development Expectations Harmony Marketing Educational Customers Setting Settings Brands Consistently Staff Inspiring Customer Service Product Development

Author:Richard Branson

“All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.”

Motivational Action Sports Goal Plans Development Setting Settings Fulfillment Consistent Motivational Sports Massive Setting Goals

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.”

Team Basketball Court Setting Settings Corporate Atmosphere Crucial Maintaining Dynamics Basketball Court

Author:Rick Pitino

“Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.”

“The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.”

Should Important Motivational Motivation Sports Goal Challenges Important Things Setting Settings Motivational Sports Setting Goals

Author:Francie Larrieu Smith

“The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.”

Sports Goal Challenges Accepting Practice Team Elements Setting Settings Motivational Sports Fearful Setting Goals Trophies Ribbons Invaluable Swimmer

Author:Summer Sanders

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”

“Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on the lines of philanthropic reforms; but our main duty converges into setting that one glorious beacon of salvation, Calvary's Cross, before the gaze of every immortal soul.”

“There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.”

Golf Wide Setting Settings Parks Golfers Therapeutic

Author:Charles Rosin

“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”

“It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”

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