Inspirational Quotes - Page 52

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.