Quotes on Inspirational

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

There is nothing permanent except change.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies._x000D_ _x000D_ No sensible capitalist would do that.

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.