Quotes on Inspirational Life

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.