Inspirational Quotes

High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

Music is a form of prayer.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

Start slowly, then taper off.

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

He could start a row in an empty house.

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

Dreams are essential to life.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

Memories mean more to me than dresses.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

Life is what you make it so make the best of it.

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together. It's not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement.

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

The paramedic whispered in my ear 'God will never leave you or forsake you.'

Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

I love myself today, not like yesterday.

Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.

The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.

The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.