Mitch Miles > Mitch's Quotes

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”
― Louis L'Amour

“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!”
― Louis L'Amour

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.”
― Nick Vujicic

“Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've seen more joy in the slums of Mumbai and the orphanages of Africa than in wealthy gated communities and on sprawling estates worth millions. Why is that? You'll find contentment when your talents and passion are completely engaged, in full force. Recognise instant self-gratification for what it is. Resist the temptation to grab for material objects like the perfect house, the coolest clothes or the hottest car. The if I just had X, I would be happy syndrome is a mass delusion. When you look for happiness in mere objects, they are never enough. Look around. Look within.”
― Nick Vujicic

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“The ties that bind us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us, even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance, and time, and logic. Because some ties are simply… meant to be.”
― MG

“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
― Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Remember that what gets talked about and how it gets talked about determines what will happen. Or won't happen. And that we succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time.”
― Susan Scott, Fierce Leadership: A Bold Alternative to the Worst "Best" Practices of Business Today

“Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.”
― Jay Danzie

“Don’t second guess your professional first impression.”
― Mitch Miles

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”
― Miriam Toews, Swing Low

“Today, technology has lowered the barrier for others to share their opinion about what we should be focusing on. It is not just information overload; it is opinion overload.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.”
― Charles Jones

“We will be the same person in 5 years that we are today except for 2 things: the people we meet and the book we read”
― Charles Jones

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
― J.M. Power

“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.”
― Marc Parent, Believing It All: Lessons I Learned from My Children

“In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.”
― Marc Parent, Believing It All: Lessons I Learned from My Children