Inspiring Quotes - Page 71

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

If they [companies] believe they are in business to serve people, to help solve problems, to use and employ the ingenuity of their workers to improve the lives of people around them by learning from the nature that gives us life, we have a chance.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

You don't have to die in order to make a living!

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.