Inspirational Quotes - Page 524

God never sends us more than we can handle.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

You are the land. The land is you.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.

Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.