Inspiration Quotes - Page 133

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

The more the merrier.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.