Quotes Tagged "inspirational"

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.

Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper...

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.