Inspirational Quotes - Page 285

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

Ingratitude is monstrous.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.