Inspiration Quotes - Page 31

You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm... you cannot buy loyalty... you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, mind or souls. You must earn these.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

I will either find a way or make one.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.