Quotes to inspire and reflect

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The question is not who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Having a grievance or resentment is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

Life is a verb. Life is not a noun. It is really “living” not “life.” It is not love, it is loving. It is not relationship, it is relating. It is not a song, it is singing. It is not a dance, it is dancing. See the difference, savor the difference.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four; unless there are three other people.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

I have decided to be happy, because it's good for my health.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

There is a women at the beginning of all great things.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

What difference does it make if the thing you’re scared of is real or not?

I don’t come to bow, I come to conquer.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.