Inspirational Quotes - Page 311

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

The game honors toughness

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.