Inspiration Quotes - Page 35

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.