Inspirational Quotes

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

Many can argue - not many converse.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Speak little, do much.

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

If 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,' how do you explain zombies?

Prayer is your personal key to heaven.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

The Kenyans haven't done much in the last two games, in fact they haven't competed since 1972

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.