PZ Myers Quotes

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

True confidence is born of experiencing your hard work and seeing your determination pay off.

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

If you have not failed, you have not really tried.

Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.

If you give up, you reward failure.

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?

With your visualization intact, commit to act.

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction.

It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.

Explore, experience, evolve, and exceed your expectations! - No Excuses!

Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.

Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise

The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness.

If you can't lay an egg or milk a cow

Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.

It’s not the win that matters so much as recognizing and respecting its value.

Sustenance! Your health is always the best prescription.

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.

Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.

The right attitude is everything!

The only 'elephant' left in the room is love.

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

So maybe home is something that changes as we do, something that expands and contracts with time and loss.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

To some, you are a way to the light and to others you will be their true destruction.

Tonight I will take back what is mine.

How foolish of me to have disregarded you, dear goddess. I won’t make that mistake again.

These words you want to remember: if you do not learn to control the power within you, it will consume more than just your enemy.

To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.

I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.

Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life.

Excuses fall silent behind self-control, focus, and direction.

Set aside your repertoire of objections and own 100 percent of your focus.

Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.

Live today as if there will be many tomorrows!

I believe in family values and following your dreams.

I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

Put some action on your good intentions!

When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?