Inspiration Quotes - Page 79

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.