Inspirational Quotes

Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Life is like an EKG. Without the ups and downs, you're not living.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

Love is louder then the pressure to be perfect.

I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

This, too, will pass.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.