Inspirational Quotes - Page 221

It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

I'm often asked how to start investing with little or no money. Please hear this as this is the hardest thing for people to understand: you do NOT invest with money! You invest with your mind! No matter what the field, your biggest asset is your mind. Once you have knowledge, you find deals, find your team and use other people’s money. You sell the deal and your team to get investment money.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.