Image of Leo Tolstoy
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Alexander Alekhine
Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.
- Alexander Alekhine
Collection: Play
Image of Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
- Rumi
Collection: Anniversary
Image of Norman Vincent Peale
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Collection: Motivational
Image of Shiv Khera
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
- Shiv Khera
Collection: Skills
Image of Jim Rohn
If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.
- Jim Rohn
Collection: Inspirational
Image of John D. Rockefeller
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
- John D. Rockefeller
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Collection: Art
Image of Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Collection: Dream
Image of Julian of Norwich
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
- Julian of Norwich
Collection: Life
Image of Muhammad Ali
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
- Muhammad Ali
Collection: Life
Image of Bill Shankly
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
- Bill Shankly
Collection: Funny
Image of T. S. Eliot
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
- T. S. Eliot
Collection: Life
Image of Albert Einstein
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Children
Image of Jhonen Vasquez
One day I will rule the world with a goat by my side!
- Jhonen Vasquez
Collection: One Day
Image of Marcel Pagnol
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
- Marcel Pagnol
Collection: Future
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Long
Image of Marie Curie
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Collection: Nature
Image of Scott D. Cook
So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
- Scott D. Cook
Collection: Educational
Image of Ken Salazar
I think the future for solar energy is bright.
- Ken Salazar
Collection: Environmental
Image of Mark Strand
The future is always beginning now.
- Mark Strand
Collection: Future
Image of Aristotle
We work to earn our leisure.
- Aristotle
Collection: Leisure
Image of Steve Jobs
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Business
Image of Bill Gates
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Albert Bandura
People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.
- Albert Bandura
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Heraclitus
All things are in a state of flux.
- Heraclitus
Collection: Change
Image of Margaret Chase Smith
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
- Margaret Chase Smith
Image of John Wooden
Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.
- John Wooden
Collection: Decision
Image of Nelson Mandela
Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Inspiring
Image of Al-Ghazali
Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
- Al-Ghazali
Collection: Looks
Image of Dana Scott
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
- Dana Scott
Collection: Education
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Questions And Answers
Image of Eric Thomas
That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don’t want it badder than you wanna party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep!
- Eric Thomas
Collection: Sleep
Image of Steven Spielberg
Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
- Steven Spielberg
Collection: Winner
Image of Mikhail Naimy
Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.
- Mikhail Naimy
Collection: Love Is
Image of Paul the Apostle
We walk by faith, not by sight.
- Paul the Apostle
Collection: Faith
Image of Ellen G. White
The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.
- Ellen G. White
Collection: Bread Of Life
Image of Protagoras
There are two sides to every question.
- Protagoras
Collection: Two Sides
Image of Wallace D. Wattles
All belief begins in the will to believe.
- Wallace D. Wattles
Collection: Believe
Image of George Bernard Shaw
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Betrayal
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Success
Image of Ellen G. White
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
- Ellen G. White
Image of Adyashanti
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
- Adyashanti
Collection: Awareness
Image of Viktor E. Frankl
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Collection: Fear
Image of Morihei Ueshiba
Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.
- Morihei Ueshiba
Collection: Order
Image of Bill Gates
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Doe
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Hunger
Image of Rumi
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
- Rumi
Collection: Gratitude
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Cosmos