Inspirational Quotes

Into every life a little rain must fall.

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.

All our loves are first loves.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

Whenever you're confronted with a tough work situation, stop for a second and try to honestly answer this question: Am I approaching this emotionally or am I approaching this professionally?

Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all.

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

The church is the gym of the soul.

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.

The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism. We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

I definitely know that there's somebody looking out for me, because I could never do this alone.

There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

Follow the customer, if they change, we change.

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.