Quotes on Inspirational

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.

The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Play is the exultation of the possible.