Inspirational Quotes - Page 226

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.