Inspirational Quotes - Page 447

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.

really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.

Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.