Inspirational Quotes - Page 17

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Done is better than perfect.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

We are what we believe we are!

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.