Inspirational Quotes - Page 484

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning.

Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.