#tru

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#excellence #inspirational #life #philosophy #truth

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#inspirational #literature #motivational #trust #inspirational

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #trust #inspirational

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#inspirational #life #success #truth #winning

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive. ↗

— Walter Scott

#honesty #inspirational #lies #truth #inspirational

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#independence #individuality #inspirational #self-assurance #self-awareness

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#accomplish #christian #great-britain #heard #hope

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#universal-truths #inspirational

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#truth #zen #inspirational

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#purpose #truth #inspirational