Quotes on Inspirational

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.