Inspirational Quotes

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

Anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.

We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

The expression of truth is simplicity.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.

The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

It's just a question of eliminating obstacles.

I'm still the king of me.

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

What I value most next to eternity is time.

It is best to live however one can be.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.

And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.

Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.