(1542 quotes found)
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”
Howard Thurman
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing.”
Maxwell Maltz
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?”
Robert Montgomery
“Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you”
Saint Bartholomew
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”
Doug Larson
“It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”
Drew Barrymore
“Eat what is cooked, listen to what is said.”
Russian Proverb
“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.”
Mark Twain
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
William Shakespeare