Inspirational Quotes

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.

If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.

The Goddess has a fourth face, which is secret, and you should pray to her, as I do — as I do, Igraine — that Morgause will never wear that face.

Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.