My Way Quotes

Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness; then the light will appear and show the way before you.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

Successful people stick to what they are good at and find ways to make that larger.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.