Inspirational Quotes - Page 514

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

Stop stewing and start doing!

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.

There's no one to stop you but yourself

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.