Inspirational Quotes - Page 368

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.

Motivation is the first step in achieving your dreams!

Sometimes silence can kill that a sword cannot

At end of Life, you realize life is enough.

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'.

See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this here, is what a man can do if he puts his mind to it and his back in it. Stop sniveling,’ [the land] said. ‘Stop picking around the edges of the world. Take advantage, and if you can’t take advantage, take disadvantage. We live here. On this planet, in this nation, in this county right here. Nowhere else! We got a home in this rock, don’t you see! Nobody starving in my home; nobody crying in my home, and if I got a home you got one too! Grab it. Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on – can you hear me? Pass it on!

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

I see the beautyAll around me I see itThe polished faces

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.

This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

You don’t have to like someone, but you have to treat them as you wish to be treated.

I follow three rules: find the opportunity to love and love endlessly, be kind to all and rude to none, and serve others with care and know that service is joy.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Love is the strength of the spirit.

The sun stands out not because it merely shines, but because it shines on everyone.

If you want to live forever, give yourself away for others.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.

If I Could Read The Last Page of My Life....

Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.

You tend to become like that, what you want most. Its up to you to make it happen. Expect the best and work for the best. Dedicate yourself and make a successful life happen.

I only thoughtOf lying quiet there where I was thrownLike sea-weed on the rocks, and suffer herTo prick me to a pattern with her pin,Fibre from fibre, delicate leaf from leaf,And dry out from my drowned anatomyThe last sea-salt left in me.

Nothing can replace your time and your strength.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.

Today is the most beautiful day to begin the rest of your joyful life.

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters...

Polygamy is about sex, whereas monogamy is about love.

Whatever you want, you can create with your imagination.

Music is the language of the soul, the voice of the heart, and a message from the eternity.

I ain't got no Visa, I ain't got no Red American Express, We can't go nowhere exotic, It don't matter 'cause I'm decent and Loyal.

You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.

Just like waves in the ocean come and go, no challenge is permanent. Problems will come and go too. We must enjoy the Challenges just like we enjoy the Waves. - RVM.

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.

Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever.

Let them ridicule you, laugh at you, hurt you & ignore you but never let them stop you.

Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862. [Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood]

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past.

Enjoy this moment. This moment is your precious life.

When you seek first to develop relationships based on personal and human ground, you will surely gain interest of another party.

There can only be one king.

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollarThey're worth so much more after I'm a gonerAnd maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'Funny when you're dead how people start listenin

Hope is being confident of what we do not see.

Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite.

Love is a heart's feeling, there is no understanding or judging.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Meditation creates harmony in the midst of chaos in my inner world and outer reality.

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match

If you love to do something, what is stopping you from doing it? Make the time. Show your passion. Shine on.

It is possible to rise above any adversity.

...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she longs to quench her limitless thirst, but those moments are so fleeting and their limit is her unrest. Her bones are hollow and heavy as she takes a single step, and in that instant she is gone, blinded by the flash of a stray ray of light, her eyes close in that moment and stars flood her night. She falls forward slow, counting the half seconds of her descent. Her eyes stay closed, her thoughts are spent.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.