Inspiring Quotations | Page 5

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian foam of the canon, inspiring writers new and established alike.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

The thing most people don't pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It's 24/7.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

As I began to get a deeper understanding of the vital life-saving work Save the Children does, I felt compelled to help in any way I could. This is about safe-keeping, inspiring and empowering a future generation - to facilitate them to make their own lives a little bit better.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.