Quotes about inspiration
inspirational live-life teaching
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand
inspirational happiness loyalty
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
inspirational life avoiding-death
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
inspirational witty goal
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
inspirational money powerful
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
inspirational motivational success
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
inspirational soul doe
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
inspirational respect ethics
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
inspirational motivational dream
Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.
inspirational men progress-of-society
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
inspirational mean sacrifice
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
inspirational hero recovery
Do not let the hero in your soul perish...
inspirational people care
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
inspirational men challenges
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
inspirational motivational change
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
inspirational courage two-sides
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
inspirational freedom independent-women
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
inspirational life motivational
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
inspirational wisdom truth
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
inspirational funny witty
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell
inspiration men fire
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins...
inspirational funny book
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
inspirational philosophy believe
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
inspirational happiness inner-peace
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
inspirational funny patience
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
inspirational success educational
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
inspirational motivational happiness
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
inspirational life happiness
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
inspirational success wisdom
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
inspirational children pain
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
inspirational motivational fear
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
inspirational inspiration technique
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more. Benjamin Cardozo
inspirational funny sheep
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep Benito Mussolini