Inspirational Quotes - Page 73

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

I think; therefore I am.

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.

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.