Inspirational Quotes - Page 330

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

Remember, what you say comes back to you.

It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards... If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve... Whatever happens, take responsibility... The only thing that's keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.