Inspirational Quotes - Page 520

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

No man was ever wise by chance.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

Do it with passion, or not at all.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.