Inspirational Quotes - Page 250

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

The best doctor gives the least medicines.

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.