Quotes on Inspirational

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

When you're really trying to make serious change, you don't want people to get caught up in emotion because change isn't emotion. Because change isn't emotion. Its real work and organization and strategy - that's just the truth of it. I mean, you pull people in with inspiration, but then you have to roll up your sleeves and you've got to make sacrifices and you have got to have structure.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.