Inspirational Quotes - Page 499

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Try not to look sideways to see how others are viewing our lives but to look up to see how heavenly father sees us.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Your life only gets better when you get better.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

I believe you make your day. You make your life.

You are what you think you are.

I don't drop players. I make changes.

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.