Inspiring Quotes - Page 14

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Who said nights were for sleep?

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.