Quotes about inspirational
inspirational guy lines
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. Gordon Parks
inspirational children growing-up
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational inspirational-life adventure
Adventure is the champagne of life. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational strong practice
of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational inspiring graduation
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational new-year eye
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational earth persons
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational life travel
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational education book
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational happiness rain
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational perfectionism not-perfect
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) . Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational inspiring loyalty
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational motivational success
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational book reading
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational motivational character
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden
inspirational life being-happy
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. John Dryden
inspirational taxation libertarian
The power to tax is the power to destroy. John Marshall
inspirational long alive
I am invincible, as long as I'm alive. John Mayer
inspirational life motivational
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day. John Mayer
inspirational business past
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes
inspirational life-changing carpe-diem
Ideas shape the course of history. John Maynard Keynes
inspirational change lying
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes
inspirational positive leadership
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. John Madden
inspirational success summer
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock
inspirational being-happy attitude
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. John Lubbock
inspirational inspirational-success hope-of-success
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success... John Locke
inspirational philosophical taken
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. John Locke
inspirational philosophical walking-away
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. John Locke
inspirational education reading
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
inspirational motivational education
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke
inspirational life perseverance
What worries you, masters you. John Locke
inspirational motivational play
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play. John Lithgow
inspirational being-yourself character
Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself. John Leguizamo