Inspiration Quotes - Page 66

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free!

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.