Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- Topic: Inspiration, Leadership
- Location: Death Valley National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
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Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Either you will control your government, or government will control you.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.
Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
