Inspirational Quotes - Page 192

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I want to live my life, not record it.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.