Inspirational Quotes - Page 517

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I live my daydreams in music.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

Farewell, fair cruelty.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.