Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 7

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

We are the hero of our own story.

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Know the Power that is Peace.