Inspirational Quotes

It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

If you're having trouble, it's because you just don't know how - yet!

My new years resolution? I will be less laz.

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed - with energy and engagement - and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

Running is my church.

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

Now get this: I was happy in the moment. As I'm happy, the next moment brings its own rewards. As I'm happy in that moment, it too gives birth to more joy.

Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

Don't ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

You invest yourself in what you believe can succeed.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.

No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.

Through God, everyone sparkles.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.