Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 123

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
God made me to be a winner and to acknowledge that all victories come from Him.
 Artur Pawlowski
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
 Thomas a Kempis
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
 John Hoeven
If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it
 Ralph Marston
I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters.
 Gail Kelly
Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.
Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.
 Wangechi Mutu
Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
 Dan Simmons
It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.
 Harrison Ford
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.
Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
Mistakes only cost you when you don't acknowledge them.
 Russell Simmons
When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.
 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.
My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.
 James Lee Burke