Inspirational Quotes - Page 282

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

There are two types of people-anchors and motors. You want to lose the anchors and get with the motors because the motors are going somewhere and they're having more fun. The anchors will just drag you down.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.