Inspirational Quotes - Page 525

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

No one will take better care of your dream than you.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.