Inspirational Quotes - Page 476

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

Silence gives consent.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

I am the captain of my soul.

The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.