Inspirational Quotes

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Not to be mad is another form of madness

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

If it's not broken, tinker with it till you find out how it works.

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.

Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

It is better to look up.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

I can't palm a basketball.

I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.

This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

... she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart