Inspirational Quotes | Page 4

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.