Inspirational Quotes - Page 265

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai.

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about.