Inspiring Quotes - Page 36

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Start listening to what you say. Are your comments and ideas negative? You aren't going become positive if you always say negative things. Do you hear yourself say"I could never do that","I never have any luck","I never get things right". Wow - that's negative self-talk! Try saying"I am going to do that","I am so lucky""I always try to get things right". Can you hear how much better that sounds?

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.