Inspirational Quotes - Page 229

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

Change is such hard work.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.