Words to Live By:Inspiring Quotes

from Inspiring People

Compiled and submitted by Christopher Brooks, RA

Ohio Wesleyan University

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and

asked myself:

'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about

to do today?'

And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I

know I need to change something.

-Steve Jobs

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

An eye for an eye only ends up

making the whole world blind. -Mohandas Gandhi

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows

himself to be a fool.

-William Shakespeare

If you can dream it,

you can do it.- Walt Disney

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

-John D. Rockefeller

A man who views the world the same at fifty

as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

-Muhammad Ali

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

- Rosa Parks

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

-Plato

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Christopher Brooks Christopher Brooks is a Resident Assistant at Ohio Wesleyan University and will graduate in 2013. He is also President of the Ohio Wesleyan University Pre-Health Club