Inspirational Quotes - Page 237

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

Leadership is action, not position

Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

The middle course is the best.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

In the factory we make cosmetics. In the store we sell hope.

One fails forward toward success.

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Patience is a key element of success.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

Enthusiasm moves the world.