Inspirational Quotes

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.

When you can feel that you already have what you want, then you will attract what you want. In fact, you already have it. Just feel it now and feel it real.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.

He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.

Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

With enough butter, anything is good

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

It wasn’t like I made his world better. It was like I was his world. It wasn’t some explosion; it wasn’t fireworks. It was a fire, burning slowly from the inside out.