Inspirational Quotes - Page 220

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

Some of your greatest blessings come with patience.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.