Inspiring Quotes - Page 55

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.