Quotes on Inspirational

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

The start is what stops most people.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.