Inspirational Quotes - Page 264

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

I just do not hang around anybody that I don't want to be with. Period. For me, that's been a blessing, and I can stay positive. I hang around people who are happy, who are growing, who want to learn, who don't mind saying sorry or thank you... and [are] having a fun time.

No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don't focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.

The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have access to a tool that people use as a weapon against you. The only reason I was never taught to read and write was because it was easier for them to lead me. But the second I learned to read and write, I began to lead myself.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

The longest hill must end in a valley.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.