Inspiring Quotes - Page 25

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.