Inspiration Quotes - Page 181

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there.

There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.

Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.