Inspirational Quotes

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher ...

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Thus Arthur achieved the adventure of the sword that day and entered into his birthright of royalty....

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that i...

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely ...

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ...

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you alr...

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves wi...

The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totalit...

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had chang...

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would...

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy!...

I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they'r...

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essenti...

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seei...

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', '...

Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and olde...

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have ni...

I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a...

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

Much as he detested Filch, Harry couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for him, though not nearly as sor...

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was t...

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’...

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the deat...

I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "...

The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of star...

Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any De...

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finish...

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark ...

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of t...

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve...

And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we t...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of wha...

Hope springs forever.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been test...

Now you might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part...

I shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who ha...

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the a...

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long for...

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of ...

I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much tha...

He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may...

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has a...

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up m...

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible ...

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He ...

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

The day will bring hope for me," said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornbu...

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadi...

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stor...

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, ...

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a dam...

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locom...

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...

He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the ...

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and loo...

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will ...

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.