Inspirational Quotes - Page 166

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

You become what you believe.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.