Inspirational Quotes - Page 414

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.

It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Talent is only a starting point.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

If your mind can go along with you it is a blessing. If your mind obeys you, it is a super-blessing.

When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.