Inspirational Quotes - Page 315

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

I live in a loving, abundant, harmonious universe, and I am grateful.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

Life is full of surprises.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

In all things that you find in the Holy Scriptures, seek out the purpose of the words, that you may enter into the depth of the thoughts of the saints and understand them with greater exactness. Do not approach the reading of the Divine Scriptures without prayer and asking the help of God. Consider prayer to be the key to the true understanding of that which is said in the Holy Scriptures.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.