Asoka Quotes & Sayings

Success has six holistic dimensions symbolized by: Heart, Mind, Body, Passion, Focus and Health. — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into. — Fisher Ames

You have first flown with your mind to every goal you have ever achieved — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

We don't know what we can achieve because no instruction manual accompanies our birth — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

I am so proud of my father; he is the biggest example of success and courage I have ever seen in my life. He is the emperor of my kingdom. Of course, my father IS an emperor, his name is Asoka, the greatest emperor ruled in India. Moreover, as the name says, he is 'without sorrow' and the slayer of our sorrows. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

We momentarily discover our wings under life-threatening circumstances — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

How often do we find the blind leading the not-so-blind? — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

Learning to ride a bicycle is easy once you stop worrying about falling off — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until. — Alistair Begg

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?' — Paul Haggis

When the King rules your world, you cease to rule or worry. All worry dethrones God. All worrying makes you King and God incompetent. There is a King born in Bethlehem and on the throne. You can breathe. — Ann Voskamp

In the mind, weeds are negative self-defeating beliefs and ideas that repeat quietly, over and over again, unchallenged, until they seem to become self-evident truths. Yet these so-called truths, when brought to light and critically examined, simply fall apart in the midst of their own deceitful falsehood and absurdity. — Asoka Selvarajah

When God intends a mercy for his people, he stirs up the spirit of prayer in them. Fervency unites the soul and directs the thoughts to the work at hand. It will not allow diversions and denies all foreign thoughts seeking to intrude. Pray fervently or you do nothing. Cold praying is no more prayer than a painting of fire is fire. How can prayers that do not even warm your own heart move God's? A fervent prayer will never find a cold reception with God. Elijah's prayer called fire down from heaven because it carried fire up to heaven. — William Gurnall

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that. — Tony Gilroy

In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke - was prepared to devote my life to become the second best film director in my family. — George Stevens Jr.

Is the hell we know better than a heaven we don't know? — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa