Inspirational Quotes - Page 579

The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.

Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.