Inspirational Quotes

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to go to.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you.

Happiness is a decision.