Quotes about inspirational
inspirational motivational success
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational being-yourself freedom
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational life wise
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational character soul
The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational men endure
A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational children kids
Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational fear political
The thing I fear most is fear. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational faith thinking
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational communication grieving
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational criminals crime
How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! Michel de Montaigne
inspirational wise men
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational education teacher
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational life humanity
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational change inspiring
No wind favors he who has no destined port. Michel de Montaigne
inspirational powerful taken
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally-if we are patient enough.
inspirational motivational goal
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda
inspirational ordinary ordinary-life
There is no such thing as an ordinary life. Mark Twain
inspirational death dying
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live. Mark Twain
inspirational life motivational
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Mark Twain
inspirational humility humble
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty. Mark Twain
inspirational motivational hero
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain
inspirational pregnant versions
We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves. Marianne Williamson
inspirational inspirational-love choices
In a choice between love and fear, choose love. Marianne Williamson
inspirational baby falling-in-love
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world. Marianne Williamson
inspirational self-esteem drama
The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others. Marianne Williamson
inspirational baby differences
Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes. Marianne Williamson
inspirational interaction-with-others giving
You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether. Marianne Williamson
inspirational dream mean
Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it. Marianne Williamson
inspirational reality glasses
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell. Marianne Williamson
inspirational silence world
What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating. Marianne Williamson
inspirational want-something conviction
Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty. Marianne Williamson
inspirational letting-go past
Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else. Marianne Williamson
inspirational opportunity machines
The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay. Marianne Williamson