Inspirational Quotes

Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Everyone you have ever loved in your life becomes a part of your soul. They never leave. They're always inside you, and you can bring them out whenever you want.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

Every failure is a step to success.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God...you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.

A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

I want to be everybody, and I want to be everything. One life is not enough.

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

See the good in people and help them.

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

[Human beings] will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.