Inspirational Quotes - Page 272

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Don’t just stand there; make something happen.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Learn to express, not impress.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.