Quotes on “inspirational”

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything.

Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.