Inspirational Quotes - Page 409

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.