Quotes Tagged "inspirational"

Life sucks, and then you die...

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.