Inspiration Quotes - Page 121

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

actions speak louder than words

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Always desire to learn something useful

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.