Inspirational Quotes - Page 150

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.