Inspirational Quotes

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

You are all stardust.

"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

In the end you have only you.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

Where there is love, there is God also.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.

I deserve to have boundaries, and my boundaries are respected. I love and honor myself. I am safe. All is well.

I listen with love to my body's messages.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

Virtue is its own reward.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.