Inspiring Quotes

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!

Be the Woman You Want to Be.

I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of your family, is really inspiring.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

Democracy must be our answer to terrorism

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day.