Inspiration Quotes - Page 180

A man of courage is also full of faith.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Happiness is in your ability to love others.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

Accuracy builds credibility.

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.