Quotes on Inspirational

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.