Inspirational Quotes

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

Make today your master piece.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.

I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

An integral being knows without going, sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.

Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.

No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.

Quite simply, our one hope for spiritual safety during these turbulent times is to turn our minds and our hearts to Jesus Christ.

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.