Quotes about inspirational
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. Ayn Rand
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
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
inspirational-life history biographies
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Benjamin Disraeli
inspirational time teenage
Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
inspirational years calendars
Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.
inspirational travel journey
Travel teaches toleration.
inspirational success wisdom
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
inspirational life littles
Life is too short to be little.
inspirational successful men
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.
inspirational perseverance determination
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
inspirational children positive-thinking
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
inspirational life motivational
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.