Inspirational Quotes - Page 197

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.