Image of Ludwig van Beethoven
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
Collection: Art
Image of Joe Darion
Dream the impossible dream.
- Joe Darion
Collection: Dream
Image of Jane Jacobs
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
- Jane Jacobs
Collection: Cities
Image of David Almond
Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.
- David Almond
Collection: Writing
Image of Robert Greene
Win through your actions, never through argument.
- Robert Greene
Collection: Winning
Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Collection: Christian
Image of Elon Musk
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
- Elon Musk
Collection: Inspirational
Image of George Orwell
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- George Orwell
Collection: Nineteen
Image of Rita Zahara
Don’t find a reason to smile. Find a way.
- Rita Zahara
Collection: Being Happy
Image of Og Mandino
I will greet this day with love in my heart.
- Og Mandino
Collection: Heart
Image of John Owen
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
- John Owen
Collection: Father
Image of Ibn Taymiyyah
If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.
- Ibn Taymiyyah
Collection: Secret
Image of Mother Teresa
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Prayer
Image of Barack Obama
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Rights
Image of Harper Lee
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
- Harper Lee
Collection: Winning
Image of Charles Grandison Finney
Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
- Charles Grandison Finney
Collection: Prayer
Image of Mark Twain
France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Summer
Image of Clarence Darrow
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow
Collection: Death
Image of Pierre Bourdieu
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
- Pierre Bourdieu
Collection: Giving
Image of Zig Ziglar
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
- Zig Ziglar
Collection: Success
Image of Serena Williams
Luck has nothing to do with it.
- Serena Williams
Collection: Motivational
Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection: Stars
Image of Paul Watson
I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
- Paul Watson
Image of George Muller
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.
- George Muller
Collection: Prayer
Image of Tim Robbins
It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
- Tim Robbins
Collection: Dying
Image of Julianna Margulies
Small gestures can have a big impact.
- Julianna Margulies
Image of Tony Romo
Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way.
- Tony Romo
Collection: Hard Work
Image of Arthur Golden
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
- Arthur Golden
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Joseph de Maistre
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
- Joseph de Maistre
Collection: Women
Image of Arianna Huffington
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
- Arianna Huffington
Collection: Meditation
Image of Karl Marx
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
- Karl Marx
Image of Thomas Sowell
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all recognize this in our daily lives. It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Sacrifice
Image of Debby Ryan
It may get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better.
- Debby Ryan
Collection: Get Better
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Risk
Image of James C. Collins
The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
- James C. Collins
Collection: Signatures
Image of Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
- Virginia Woolf
Image of Lisa Mangum
I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.
- Lisa Mangum
Collection: Believe
Image of R. Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Collection: Beauty
Image of David Belle
When you’re training Parkour with passion, if you’re good, people will notice you. Don’t go around saying, ‘Hey look at this new move I got.’ No. We used to say, ‘If it’s good we’ll tell you.’ Do it for yourself first.
- David Belle
Collection: Moving
Image of Amish Tripathi
If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.
- Amish Tripathi
Image of John Henry Newman
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
- John Henry Newman
Image of Thomas Jefferson
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Warren Buffett
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
- Warren Buffett
Collection: Order
Image of Simon Cowell
The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.
- Simon Cowell
Collection: Music
Image of Hunter S. Thompson
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Collection: Procrastination
Image of Neil Gaiman
Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: Growing Up
Image of Joseph Campbell
There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
- Joseph Campbell
Collection: Reality
Image of Andrew Wommack
Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!
- Andrew Wommack
Collection: God
Image of Sachin Tendulkar
I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
- Sachin Tendulkar