#si

I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly"). ↗

— James Houston Turner

#persistence #inspirational

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#inspiration #president #success #inspirational

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #quote #success #the-alchemist #inspirational

When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God! ↗

— Raphael Ben Levi

#inspirational #jewishness #messianic #inspirational

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#emotion #feeling #insightful #love #love

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ↗

— Haim Ginott

#expected #goals #impossible #inadequate #miracle

Brush strokes write poetry harmonized through the cords of an artist's imagination. Color, contrast, simple compassion splattered across paper leaves tainted with the melody of the silent wind. Gasping, grasping, simply glancing at the souls of those who were not blessed with the visionary sight of inspirational artistry. ↗

— Laura S. Al Bast

#artistry #color #gasping #quote #sight

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen. ↗

— Bill Scott

#confrontation #constant #elected #elected officials #legislature

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#analytical #beautiful #design #evidence #practice

I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation. ↗

— Frank Scott

#commissions #country #ever #fair #had