Inspirational Quotes - Page 225

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.

I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.