Inspirational Quotes - Page 452

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

The going is the goal.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Timeliness is best in all matters.

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.

Although his time is not always our time, we can be sure that the lord keeps his promises.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

I love to dance in the disco, but that's about it.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

The days you work are the best days.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.