Find Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Quotes to Lift Your Spirit - page 300

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
 Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
 Nate Silver
It did not take long after the rise of the commercial printing press before someone figured out that erotic novels were a good idea. ... It took people another 150 years to even think of the scientific journal.
 Clay Shirky
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
 Harriet B. Braiker
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
 Sophocles
Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
 Brian J. White
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
 Mike Murdock
I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
 Gene Kelly
Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.
 Melody Beattie
I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
 Manny Pacquiao
No one rises to low expectations
 Les Brown
You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.
 Chalene Johnson
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
 W. A. Criswell
Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.
Nothing can replace courage, a resounding motivation and that little bit of luck.
 Edmund Hillary
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
 Joshua Foer