Inspirational Quotes - Page 553

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

A hungry man is an angry one.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.