Quotes on Inspirational

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.