Inspiring Quotes

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

It is not your business to love me. It is mine.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.

Don't get mad, get even.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

What am I doing here?

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

I love that feeling of inspiring other women.

If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or rich, then you're in danger.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

The final mystery is oneself.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.

GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen.

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.