Quotes on “inspirational”

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune".

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.