Inspirational Quotes - Page 479

You raze the old to raise the new.

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Make every day your masterpiece.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and nothing else...They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.

The expression of our truth is an ancient action through which we actually discover our place in the world; the true shape of our being and our individuality. It is how we create firm boundaries and allow others to know who we are and what we value.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

People need encouragement to take action.

Love lift us up where we belong.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.