Quotes on “inspirational”

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

May you live every day of your life.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.