Quotes to inspire and reflect

No other road, no other way, no day but today.

 

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

 

Measure your life in love.

 

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

 

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

 

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S.

Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. J. R. R.

 

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

In the end, everything is a gag.

How do I know what I have to say until I see what I have said? E. M.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

 

Hardness shatters; strength endures.

 

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.

 

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

 

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

 

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words. St.

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

 

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. William S.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. J. R. R.

 

A functioning police state needs no police. William S.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R.

 

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Die, but do not retreat.

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on? J. R. R.

 

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself. J. R. R.

 

For though I do not ask for aid, we need it. J. R. R.

 

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. J. R. R.

The treacherous are ever distrustful. J. R. R.

 

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J. R. R.

 

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! J. R. R.

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R.

 

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size. J. R .R.

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works... J. R. R.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

 

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.