Inspirational Quotes - Page 469

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you'll never surf again was gone in one wave.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.