Inspirational Quotes

The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.

Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

Love lift us up where we belong.

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

Don't go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.

You will never change what you tolerate.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

You raze the old to raise the new.

Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.