Inspirational Quotes

Progress is often just a good idea away.

There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Nothing about us without us.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

I'm just me - the way I am.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.