Inspiring Quotes - Page 63

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.