Inspirational Quotes - Page 293

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.