Inspirational Quotes - Page 357

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

A human being is a deciding being.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

To not advance is to retreat.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.