Inspirational Quotations #217

The winds of grace are blowing all the time.
You have only to raise your sail.
* Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

It is probably a sound definition of character to say that
it is habitual self-mastery toward good ends….
Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure,
its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when
we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence
of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will.
* Leo J. Muir

The role of the Director is to create a space where
the actor or actress can become more than they’ve
ever been before, more than they’ve dreamed of being.
* Robert Altman

People, even more than things,
have to be restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
* Audrey Hepburn

Our business in life is not to succeed,
but to continue to fail in good spirits.
* Robert Louis Stephenson

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes

For myself I am an optimist -
it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
* Winston Churchill

When we forgive someone,
the knots are untied and the past is released.
* Reshad Feild

I feel that the greatest reward for
doing is the opportunity to do more.
* Jonas Salk

Visit www.Inspiration.RightAttitudes.com for my compilation of inspirational quotations by author and topic. You may also subscribe to the weekly newsletter of inspirational quotations by sending a blank email to iqml-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

*Keyword(s): Inspiration, Quotations

Inspirational Quotations #216

Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It’s the way it is.
The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
* Unknown

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know.
Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
* Buckminster Fuller

Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass…
* Owen Feltham

The positive thinker sees the invisible,
feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
* Unknown

Miracles rest not so much upon faces or voices
Or great healing powers coming to us from afar off,
But upon our perceptions being made finer so that, for a moment,
Our eyes can see and our ears can hear what there is about us always.
* Willa Cather

The real worth of man is not in himself alone, but what he stands for.
* Sterling W. Sill

You are not ever given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
* Richard Bach

Everyone lives by selling something.
* Robert Louis Stevenson

You can complain that roses have thorns;
or rejoice that thorns have roses.
* Ziggy

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent
only on the full use of our creative imagination.
* Ruth Ross

Visit www.Inspiration.RightAttitudes.com for my compilation of inspirational quotations by author and topic. You may also subscribe to the weekly newsletter of inspirational quotations by sending a blank email to iqml-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

*Keyword(s): Inspiration, Quotations

Inspirational Quotations #215

TODAY
Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin.
* Mother Theresa

Conceit is a strange disease.
It makes everyone else sick except
the person who has it.
* Unknown

The three things most difficult are:
to keep a secret, to forget an injury,
and to make good use of leisure.
* Chilo

A ship in a port is safe,
but that’s not what ships are built for.
* Unknown

You don’t have to know what to do.
You have to do what you know.
* Unknown

Patience in the present,
faith in the future,
and joy in the doing.
* George Perera, MD

Live every day as if it is your last -
and one day you’ll be right.
* Unknown

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
* William James

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly,
and who can say to himself, “I shall today be uppermost.”
* Confucius

Visit www.Inspiration.RightAttitudes.com for my compilation of inspirational quotations by author and topic. You may also subscribe to the weekly newsletter of inspirational quotations by sending a blank email to iqml-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

*Keyword(s): Inspiration, Quotations