Quotes on Inspirational

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

The end doesn't justify the means.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.