Inspirational Quotes - Page 578

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.

I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

I never promise anything. I don't promise anything to my mum. I don't promise anything to the supporters.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Different strokes for different folks.

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.

When you love someone you love him as he is.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.