Inspiring Quotes - Page 10

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.