Inspirational Quotes - Page 299

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.