Inspirational Quotes

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

I don't really care if they like me or not.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

All growth is a leap in the dark.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.

It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to doDon't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

He who loves his work never labors.

Recognize your victories.

Listen, listen, listen.