Inspirational Quotes - Page 281

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Believe the best of everybody.