Inspirational Quotes

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetical...

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts bracket...

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a li...

Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanct...

He winced at her efforts to mollify him. Why didn't she say she was disgusted with his behaviour, wi...

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make...

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself...

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

Let the revolution begin.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and...

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in...

America is too great for small dreams.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is...

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in d...

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totali...

If you're explaining, you're losing.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

The germ of creation lies in violence.

Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trus...

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Don’t grieve. Anything y...

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up th...

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me ...

(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of thos...

Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time,...

Don't waste inspiration

..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything exc...

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in retu...

For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in ...

The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false...

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I a...

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and fa...

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of f...

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly th...

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live b...

My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing;Land where my fathers died,Land of the...

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

Language is the dress of thought.

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before ...

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failu...

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into th...

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understan...

Too many locks, not enough keys.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look a...

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-...

Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits betwee...

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...

Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music i...

a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else ha...

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way,...

The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be any...

It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell o...

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to kno...

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...

Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or c...

Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

Be yourself there is no one better

You have every right to a beautiful life.