Inspirational Quotes - Page 200

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.