Inspiring Quotes - Page 90

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner.' That's something I was really conscious of during training, when you're trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong-not thin and underfed.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Man is not made for defeat.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.