Inspiring Quotes - Page 54

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.

A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.