Inspirational Quotes

A good nail does not fear being hammered.

When you change your thoughts and perception, you change the way you live.

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

If you are not leaning, no one will let you down.

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

Look not down but up!

Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Laughter is the best way To make somebody's heart beat

If you don't know where to put your money, it will be gone.

A call for women... To rise up what it really takes for the reward of financial freedom.

I have learned... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous

There is no greater learning process than to teach.

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.

To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

As I like to say, take the shot, even if your knees are shaking.

Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.

The fears you run from run to you.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.

Know that the thing that is easiest to do is rarely the thing that is best to do.

Be so good at what you do that no one else in the world can do what you do.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front

Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals

Coe has smashed the world record, 1:44.92 seconds has never been run easier

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.