Inspirational Quotes
People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.
Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.
By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.
The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.