Inspiring Quotes - Page 74

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

I read poetry to save time.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

When in doubt take a bath

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

By building respect and inspiring love business can move the world.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.