Inspirational Quotes - Page 536

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

A prophet weeps while others are laughing.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.