Julian Baggini Quotes

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

One has to have hope. Without hope you can't get anywhere.

When one is having good fortune, one's mind tends to be clear. When one is struck by a disaster, one's mind tends to be muddled.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by those who are doing it.

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed

If you are not able to do something, that is true for the present, not for the future. All the time there's a chance to go a step further. Not to be frustrated.

Only individual creativity can bring about real social development.

Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.

Whether it is a small thing or big one, step-by-step you can make things happen.

If you have luck on your side and are strong mentally, you can succeed in Europe.

I speak to people who have coached me down the years who tell me to look at how far I've come and to just keep going, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history - you have to believe that something different can happen.

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.