Inspiration Quotes - Page 82

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Solitude is the place of purification.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The best revenge is massive success.

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by good men, because good men would not tell lies by saying 'Thus saith the Lord;' it was not written by bad men because they would not write about doing good duty, while condemning sin, and themselves to hell; thus, it must be written by divine inspiration

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.