Inspirational Quotes - Page 498

I don't think you should let your age stop anything you want to do. Don't put an age limit on your dreams.

O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.