Inspirational Quotes - Page 314

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Life is a balance between rest and movement.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

When placed in command, take charge.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.