Inspirational Quotes - Page 491

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.

Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up.

When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet.