Inspirational Quotes

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Great witch, tough woman.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

Don't be afraid of new arenas.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Christ is more concerned about what we do with Him than for Him.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Individuality is founded in feeling

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

Writing is a craft not an art.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Impossible is nothing.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

They alone live, who live for others.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

My advice: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.