Inspiring Quotes - Page 18

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

Respect all. Fear none.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Through discipline comes freedom.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.