Inspirational Quotes

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‘A miracle a minute’ would not be a bad slogan for God.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.