Best 2223 quotes in «inspirational life quotes» category

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

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.

The best of times is now.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

The more the merrier.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

The readiness is all.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

There is no normal life, there's just life.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

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

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

Trouble is part of your life

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?