Quotes on Inspirational

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.