Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 35

• A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Long, People, Bores

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• Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Power, President, Fit

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• Good ball players make good citizens.

  Grover Cleveland

  Player, Presidential, Balls

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• We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

  William Howard Taft

  Sacrifice, Greatness, Toil

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• All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Expression

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.331

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• Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspirational Love, Flower, Mean

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (2000). “Purpose: Focusing on What Matters Most”, Franklincovey

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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  News conference, 21 Mar. 1962

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• Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

  Louis Cozolino

  Inspirational, Wise, Individual

  Louis Cozolino (2014). “The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)”, p.424, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Views

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, People

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• If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

  Kate Spade

  Work Out, Honest, Fairs

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• We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Finding Peace, Ifs

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• Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

  John Landy

  Running, Thinking, Important

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• Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Determination

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• Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Wind

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• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

  Plato

  Beauty, Simple, Thought Provoking

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.89, Anchor

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• An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Prayer, Everyday, Worship

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

  Dave Smalley

  Life, Strong, Acceptance

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• A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Creativity, Self, Creative

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• We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

  Donald Curtis

  Motivational, Faith, Firsts

  Donald Curtis (1961). “Your thoughts can change your life”

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• Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Letting Go, Ego

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• The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.

  Ian Gardner

  Life, Soul, Purpose

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• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Life, Dream, Heart

  "The invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, 1999.

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