Inspirational Quotes - Page 215

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

Light will someday split you open

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Without passion, you don't have any energy, and without energy, you simply have nothing

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.