Quotes on Inspirational

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

If sub specie aeternitatis [from eternity's point of view] there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.

Perhaps the earth can teach us_x000D_ _x000D_ As when everything seems dead_x000D_ _x000D_ And later proves to be alive

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.