Inspirational Quotes - Page 466

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.

Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening.

What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.

Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

You never know when it is going to happen, when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read somewhere, changed the entire course of your life.

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.