Inspiration quotes

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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

- Og Mandino

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.

- Joel Osteen

We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.

- Joel Osteen

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.

- Joel Osteen

You will never change what you tolerate.

- Joel Osteen

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

- Joel Osteen

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

- Joel Osteen

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

- Joel Osteen

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‘Boy, those were great old days.’ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

- Joel Osteen

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can.

- Joel Osteen

If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbor. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

- Joel Osteen

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

- Joel Osteen

Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

- Og Mandino

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

- Eric Hoffer

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

- Eric Hoffer

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

- Eric Hoffer

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

- Eric Hoffer

Naïveté in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

- Eric Hoffer

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

- Eric Hoffer

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

- Eric Hoffer

Man was nature's mistake - she neglected to finish him - and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

- Eric Hoffer

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

- Eric Hoffer

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

- Eric Hoffer

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.

- Eric Hoffer

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

- Eric Hoffer

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.

- Eric Hoffer

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

- Eric Hoffer

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

- Eric Hoffer

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

- Eric Hoffer

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.

- Eric Hoffer