David Viscott famous quotes

04-27-2025

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
-- David Viscott

#Life #Motivational #Positive
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
-- David Viscott

#Motivational #Positive #Fitness
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
-- David Viscott

#Love #Friendship #Marriage
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
-- David Viscott

#Hurt #Failure #Thinking
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
-- David Viscott

#Differences #Shining #Specialty
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
-- David Viscott

#Trying #Today #Way
The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
-- David Viscott

#Love #Marriage #Wish
When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows
-- David Viscott

#Emotional #People #Giving
Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true.
-- David Viscott

#Loss #Keys #Wish
People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.
-- David Viscott

#People #Accomplishment #Lists
Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.
-- David Viscott

#Inspirational #Motivational #Taken
You don't have to try, you just have to be.
-- David Viscott

#Trying #Information
You are the only one who has to live your life.
-- David Viscott

#Live Your Life
If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
-- David Viscott

#Risk #Get Better #Way
Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self.Â Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.
-- David Viscott

#Self #Goal #Path
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
-- David Viscott

#Life #Giving #Purpose
This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
-- David Viscott

#America #People #Together
Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.
-- David Viscott

#Time #Easier #Really Mean
Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.
-- David Viscott

#Loss #Want #Imagine
Lists have always implied social order.
-- David Viscott

#Order #Lists #Social
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.
-- David Viscott

#Angel #Character #Growth
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
-- David Viscott

#Believe #People #Action
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
-- David Viscott

#Clay #Stones #Lists
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
-- David Viscott

#Water #Risk #Venture

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