Inspirational Quotes

The means of many outweigh the means of the few or one.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

When you are alone you are all your own.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you.

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

The only way to be absolutely safe is to never try anything for the first time.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.