Quotes on “inspirational”

We are constantly invited to be what we are.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.