Top Inspirational / Motivational Quotes of All Time

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

God isn't a being, but a state of being

The best slave is the slave who thinks he is free, and the greatest fool is the fool who thinks he is a wise man.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Buy when there’s blood in the streets [even if the blood is your own].

There is a fullness of the gospel, but most people will not attain it here. In order to grasp this truth, we need to listen to the Spirit and let go of our egos.

We are here to have love for every person born on earth. Their earthly form might be black, yellow, brown, handsome, ugly, thin, fat, wealthy, poor, intelligent, or ignorant, but we are not to judge by these appearances. Each spirit has the capacity to be filled with love and eternal energy.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Creation does not explain itself; under the Law, it cannot do so; its secrets have to be unraveled by the created.

What you know to be good, seek for and it shall be found.

Had man not been created, who would have known God's wisdom and power?

You can't win an argument

Do not disregard evil, saying, "It will not come nigh unto me", by the falling of drops even a water-jar is filled, likewise the fool, gathering little by little, fills himself with evil.

Even if he does not quote appropriate texts much, if he follows the principles of the Teaching by getting rid of greed, hatred and delusion, deep of insight and with a mind free from attachment, not clinging to anything in this world or the next - that man is a partner in the Holy Life.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

Stupid fools go through life as their own enemies, doing evil deeds which have bitter consequences.

Like a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not moved by praise or blame.

Everything in life is luck.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

What is taught in schools has already been done a thousand times over, and it is regurgitated on a daily basis. In order to create something truly unique, you must look within yourself, as that is only where unique ideas can come from. None of us are the same, and so what you create can never be the same as anyone else's.

Why do you want to memorize how I did this action? I may do it different next time.

I have reached everything I want, and I'm only twenty-four. Now what do I do?

Is there anything too hard for the Lord?

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Ask 10 people if you should start a new business. 10 out of 10 of them will say NO.

You need to accept that friends and family will do dumb shit, and the world is a lonely place for intelligent people.

When the American people become better, they will get better government. I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

If you would like to excel at a profession or a mental skill, plan on adding to your knowledge every day

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?

I spend maybe 2-5% of my time maintaining what I have and the rest of the time trying to grow.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

The kingdom of God is within you.

Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and greater things.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?

This soul needs to follow another soul in whom the Spirit of life dwells, because she is saved through the Spirit. Then she will never be thrust into flesh again.

Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human.

Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking.

There are those who derive pleasure in being what they are not, but as their hair turns grey, they suffer sorrow and frustration. Be ever true to yourselves and to your natures.

I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty. But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways.

We are not so much anti-capitalist (...) We're fortunate enough to have built a very healthy business, even though we haven't attempted to. All we have done is stop short of trying to become insanely wealthy. We have met billionaires and it sounds funny but it's not necessarily a bed of roses to have that kind of money.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

Be a person who reasons not from conclusions, but toward them.

None can force me to do wrong against my will

Wise men are instructed by reason;
Men of less understanding, by experience;
The most ignorant, by necessity;
The beasts by nature.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Beware the weakness of indecision, for a bad decision is better than no decision at all.

He who leads to victory is great, but he who can lead in defeat is still greater.

God is beyond his comprehension, but Truth is not; it alone is the path towards the fulfillment of the destiny of man.

The possessions of a greedy man are never secure, for his avariciousness will destroy that, which his greed has gathered.

My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

The secret to his success is that he never went to business school.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

The naive believes everything, but a wise man looks well to a matter.

He that refuses instruction hates himself, but he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.

Do you see a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings.

The average person doesn't think well because they went to school

For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

All truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self evident.

Safe is risky

Surround yourself with people who have the skills you want and are the type of people you want to be

The more I know about something the more I know about everything

If you're one step ahead of the world you're a genius. If you're two steps ahead you're insane.

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct

Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Nothing is easier to prove than that something human has imperfections. I'm amazed at how many people devote themselves to that task.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

Beat them with product

Never mind the classification, just get that guy in here.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Noble means to a lesser goal will benefit the world far more than disreputable means to a higher goal.

Laws are made, and laws are changed, but no man truly knows what is right and what is wrong.

Be modest in manner and calm in bearing, for men avoid the excitable man who is a weak reed to lean upon in times of stress and a hazard in danger.

It is more profitable to listen than to talk.

Of thoughts, words and deeds, only deeds have any established value on Earth.

Though many men know how they should live very few do in fact live that way.