Inspiring Quotes

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

What regresses, never progresses.

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

... don't be afraid to screw up !... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

It takes a habit to replace a habit.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets.

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.