Inspirational Quotes

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.

Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body.

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

"Exercise" is such a dirty word in my household that whenever I even think of it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

The time is 'now' to do something - don't drag your feet.

It's not over until you win

As with any relationship, the market favors those who give more value than they ask for.

We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?

If it's to be, it's up to me.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

I breathe in the fullness and richness of life.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

It takes more strength to cry, admit defeat. I have truth on my side, you only have deceit.