Inspiration Quotes - Page 195

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.