Inspirational Quotes - Page 224

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Copy and paste is a design error.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.