Quotes Tagged "inspirational"

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.

The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

With great power comes great responsibility.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.