Inspiration Quotes - Page 194

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?