Wise and Inspiring Quotes

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY; i.e., Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. He that gets all he can honestly and saves all he gets (necessary expenses excepted) will certainly become rich, if that Being who governs the world, to Whom all should look for a blessing on their honest endeavors, doth not in His wise Providence otherwise determine.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

1718. Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life — the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one's 'real life' is a phantom of one's own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight: but it's hard to remember it all the time.

I say unto you: Cherish your doubts,   For doubt is the handmaiden of truth. Doubt is the servant of discovery;   She is the key unto the door of knowledge. Let no man fear for the truth, that doubt     May consume her; Only he that would shut out his doubts     Denieth the truth.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.