Inspirational Quotes - Page 572

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind

If a man does not argue with the thoughts that the enemy secretly sows in us, but by prayer to God uproots conversation with them, this is a sign that his mind has attained wisdom, and that he has found a short path.

It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.