Robin Sharma Quotes

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.

Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Failure to love is almost like murder.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.