Inspiration Quotes - Page 162

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.