Inspirational Quotes - Page 249

Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!