Inspirational Quotes

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

I try to walk on the sunny side of the street.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

If we don't consciously plant the seeds of what we want in the gardens of our minds we'll end up with weeds.

The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.

No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

Love those you hate you.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Maktub" (It is written.)

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

Convictions are prisons.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.