Inspirational Quotes - Page 372

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

History is written by the victors.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.