Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

Some of my favorite quotes by John Keats.

“I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart’s affections and the Truth of the Imagination.”

“Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze most softly lulling to my soul.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”

“Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.”

” Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”

“Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.”

“Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.”

“Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”

“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.”

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.”

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work’, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?”

“I am not afraid of a pack of lions being led by a sheep, but I am afriad of a pack of sheep led by a lion.”

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Alexander the Great didn’t live for too long but he conquered more in his short lifetime than many generations of many famous kings and emperors.

Alexander left a few quotes, but those few left an impact of a thousand quotes.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

God blesses him who helps his brother.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

Here are some inspirational quotes by Ambrose Bierce in his signature definition style quotes in which he left many valuable gems of wisdom

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. … It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Some of favorite quotes by Kahlil Gibran.

“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ”

“When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.”

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ”

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.”

“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.”

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need”

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ”

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ”

“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. “