Quotes on Inspirational

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.