Inspiration Quotes - Page 122

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings, magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite our imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. Regardless of who you are or what you do, if you are looking for the best way to reap the most reward in all areas of life, you should look for the good in every person and in every situation and adopt the golden rule as a way of life.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.