Inspirational Quotes

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Dreams are the language of God.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.

True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

There's no God higher than truth.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.