Provoking Quotes

443 Provoking quotes by 302 unique authors

Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel… — Steve Pavlina
"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices." — Steve Pavlina
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to… — Steve Pavlina
Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not… — Steve Pavlina
If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective… — Steve Pavlina
Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes… — Steve Pavlina
I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same… — Steve Pavlina
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you… — Steve Pavlina
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve… — Steve Pavlina
The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life… — Steve Pavlina
I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke.… — Steve Pavlina
Intelligence and genius — Albert Einstein
Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up… — Michael Fassbender
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In… — Pope Benedict XVI
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid… — Adrienne Rich
My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance. — Unknown Author
This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight… — Jane Grigson
More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states. — Unknown Author
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news… — Unknown Author
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminskyâ€™s poignant struggle transcends time and… — Binnie Kirshenbaum

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