Inspirational Quotes - Page 85

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

No matter your obstacles, live a happy life.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.