Inspirational Quotes

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.

The germ of creation lies in violence.

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Paper has more patience than people.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

Never give up on your dreams.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Your looks do not define who you are.

In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.