Quotes about inspirational
inspirational favors quantum
William Hazlitt We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
inspirational value-of-time misers
William Hazlitt As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
inspirational dull cold
William Hazlitt We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
inspirational mind done
William Hazlitt I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
inspirational strong mean
William Hazlitt A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
inspirational confidence positive-attitude
William Hazlitt As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
inspirational sleep silence
William Dean Howells He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
inspirational peace politics
William E. Gladstone Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
inspirational mean destiny
William E. Gladstone Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
inspirational destiny nations
Wendell Phillips On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
inspirational dream battle
Wendell Phillips Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
inspirational life wisdom
Wendell Berry It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
inspirational wise memories
Wendell Berry 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.
inspirational courage travel
Wendell Berry Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
inspirational failure winning
Walter Reuther If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
inspirational teaching learning
W. Somerset Maugham The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
inspirational life death
W. Somerset Maugham Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
inspirational life excess
W. Somerset Maugham Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
inspirational life character
W. Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
inspirational life friendship
W. Somerset Maugham We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
inspirational life advice
W. Somerset Maugham Impropriety is the soul of wit.
inspirational friendship children
W. Somerset Maugham When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
inspirational funny science
W. Somerset Maugham The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
inspirational clever happy-new-year
W. Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
inspirational life happiness
W. Somerset Maugham Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
inspirational funny death
W. Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
inspirational success congratulations
W. Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
inspirational positive-thinking world
W. Somerset Maugham You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
inspirational secret life-is
W. Somerset Maugham The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
inspirational life failure
W. Somerset Maugham Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
inspirational funny life
Vladimir Nabokov Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
inspirational creativity thinking
Vladimir Nabokov Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.