Quotes on Inspirational

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.

It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.