Inspirational Quotes

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

You get to the point where you decide that you don't want to be a victim anymore and that you're not going to live your life like that.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.

Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.

The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.

We began this process, and fantastic things happened — to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words!

Read less, study less, but think more

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.