Quotes on Inspirational

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret