Inspirational Quotes

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

Friendly makes sales - and friendly generates repeat business.

Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.

Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.

I'm a really good fine tuner.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.