Inspirational Quotes - Page 429

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

Change begets change.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.