Inspirational quotes /
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” Lao Tzu /
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
EF Schumacher
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Unknown
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.
Howard Thurman
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Tony Robbins
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
Mother Teresa
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know yourself, always question, never move on without finding the right answers, consciousness always kick starts ones soul.
Homsy
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Jim Horning
One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
Mark Twain
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
Seek to know that by which knowing, the nature of all things becomes known.
Upanishads
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William JH Boetcker
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
GK Chesterton
To lead a symphony you must occasionally turn your back on the crowd.
Anonymous
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage or of principle..
Confucius
What you're doing today or what you're planning tomorrow is of much more importance than what you did yesterday.
Sir Edmund Hillary
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Unknown
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift from God, that's why it is called the present.
Unknown
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
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