Quotes about inspiration
inspirational passion desire
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. James Allen
inspirational happiness harmony
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
inspirational motivational positive
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
inspirational men people
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.
inspirational life motivational
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
inspirational birthday character
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
inspirational powerful focus-and-concentration
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
inspirational greatness desire
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
inspirational positive success
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
inspirational life happiness
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
inspirational life success
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
inspirational dream sleep
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
inspirational teacher mistake
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. James Anthony Froude
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
inspirational men midst
A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. Jacques Maritain
inspirational beauty grace
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Friedrich Schiller
inspirational disappointment fear
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
inspirational life motivational
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
inspirational strength spiritual
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. Franklin D. Roosevelt
inspirational motivational healthy
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
inspirational leadership bullying
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
inspirational ninety-nine people
If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
inspirational happiness happy
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
inspirational life motivational
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
inspirational life anchors
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
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A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
inspirational motivational success
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
inspirational motivational success
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
inspiration hard-work writing
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work. George Gershwin
inspiration waiting doe
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
inspirational ideas desire
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas. George Gilder
inspiration excellence perspiration
Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both. George Foreman
inspiration independent assessment
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. Jon Meacham