Inspiration Quotes - Page 20

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.