Inspirational Quotes

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

Look within!... The secret is inside you.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Always desire to learn something useful

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.