Quotes on Inspirational

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

Your voice can change the world.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.