Inspiration Quotes - Page 33

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

The best is yet to come.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.