Inspiring Actuarial Quotes

Once chosen, forever chosen. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Depression is the feeling that everything
is a waste of time.
Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste. ~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. ~ Otto Von Bismarck

I know I'm not inspiring much confidence at this point, but there's something else I thought I'd bring up." She lifted her eyes to him. "I love you more than I love books. ~ Cynthia Hand

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. ~ Rick Riordan

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness. ~ Charles Handy

I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing. ~ Brett Dennen

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it. ~ Rani Mukerji

Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody. ~ Bell Hooks

If we feel affected by the dreariness of the mad scramble, we have to stand back, take a break and override the droning humdrum of the treadmill; and let the exaltation of the day decide; and follow inspiring pathways to the true heartbeat of our life. ("Mutatis mutandi") ~ Erik Pevernagie

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. ~ Abraham Lincoln

There is indeed in the contemplation of beauty of any kind, something which detaches us from ourselves by making us feel that perfection is worth more than we are; and that, through this conviction, by inspiring us with a momentary disinterestedness, awakens in us the power of sacrifice, which is the source of all virtues. There is in emotion, whatever its cause, something which makes our blood flow faster, which communicates to us a kind of wellbeing which doubles the sense of our existence and our powers, and that, by doing so, renders us capable of a greater generosity, courage, or sympathy, than we normally feel. Even a corrupt man is better when he is moved and as long as he is moved. ~ Benjamin Constant

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done. ~ Richard Rogers

Inspiring others can come in many forms; it can simply be by sharing your story, your struggles, and how you managed to overcome your obstacles. ~ Hagir Elsheikh

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. ~ Kathleen Turner

I would rather walk alone in light than with many in the darkness. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep trying! You will succeed at the sacred time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together ... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. ~ Alan Thicke

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. ~ Aristotle Onassis

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Your dreams will define your destiny. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds. ~ Christopher Hitchens

He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a flamingo, could not acknowledge errors, and tried to cover up his mistakes with sly, childish tricks. Yet he was also endowed with great personal charm, a will of iron, and a soaring intellect. Unquestionably he was the most gifted man-at arms- this nation has produced. -William Manchester on Douglas MacArthur ~ William Manchester

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

All things carefully considered, I believe they come down to this: what scares me is the Church as a social thing. Not solely because of her stains, but by the very fact that it is, among other characteristics, a social thing. Not that I am by temperament very individualistic. I fear for the opposite reason. I have in myself a strongly gregarious spirit. I am by natural disposition extremely easily influenced in excess, and especially by collective things. I know that if in this moment I had before me twenty German youth singing Nazi songs in chorus, part of my soul would immediately become Nazi. It is a very great weakness of mine. . . . I am afraid of the patriotism of the Church that exists in the Catholic culture. I mean 'patriotism' in the sense of sentiment analogous to an earthly homeland. I am afraid because I fear contracting its contagion. Not that the Church appears unworthy of inspiring such sentiment, but because I don't want any sentiment of this kind for myself. The word 'want' is not accurate. I know - I sense with certainty - that such sentiment of this type, whatever its object might be, would be disastrous in me. Some saints approved the Crusades and the Inquisition. I cannot help but think they were wrong. I cannot withdraw from the light of conscience. If I think I see more clearly than they do on this point - I who am so far below them - I must allow that on this point they must have been blinded by something very powerful. That something is the Chur ~ Simone Weil

The Courts of Justice had once ruled that a man carrying bagpipes was a man carrying a weapon - so inspiring was the music of the pipers to the clans in battle. ~ John McPhee

Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role. ~ Stephen Covey

Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time. ~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Heal the world and the world will heal you. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it. ~ Maya Angelou

Submission to God is praying with your knees bow. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A winning effort begins with preparation. ~ Joe Gibbs

Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it. ~ Martha Sweeney

The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against. ~ John Crowley

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. ~ Henry Kravis

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside. ~ Eckhart Tolle

I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal. ~ Rachel Miner

Holy Bible is Holy Bible. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

management is telling people what to do; leadership is inspiring them to want to do it. ~ Allen Filson

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you. ~ Audrey Hepburn

I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe. ~ Giovanni Ribisi

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood we discover a cult or club fantasy: the dream of the portentous solidarity of those who have been chosen to be allowed to read. In the ancient world - indeed, until the dawn of the modern nation-states - the power of reading actually did mean something like membership of a secret elite; linguistic knowledge once counted in many places as the provenance of sorcery. In Middle English the word 'glamour' developed out of the word 'grammar'. The person who could read would be thought easily capable of other impossibilities. ~ Peter Sloterdijk