Inspirational Quotes - Page 582

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.