Inspirational Quotes - Page 482

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.

No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

No great thing is created suddenly.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.