Inspirational Quotes - Page 421

Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not allow grace to live in them, and therefore they never have spiritual peace, while in the obedient soul the grace of the Holy Spirit enters easily and gives joy and peace. Whoever bears even a little grace in himself joyfully submits himself to all direction. He knows that God directs even the heavens and the netherworld, and himself, and his business, and everything in the world, and therefore he is always at peace.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

So keep your chin up, boy, forget the pain. I know you'll make it, if you try again. There's no use in quitting, when the world is waiting for you.

Leadership is having a point of view.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.