Quotes on Inspirational

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.