Inspirational Quotes - Page 515

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.