Top 100 Inspirational Quotes

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The starting point of all achievement is desire.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.2

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

4

The painting has a life of its own

5

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

6

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

7

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

8

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

9

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

10

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

11

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

12

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

13

The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child

14

Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.

15

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

16

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

17

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

18

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

19

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

20

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

21

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

22

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

23

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

24

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

25

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

26

You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.

27

Kindness in giving creates love.

28

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

29

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

30

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

31

We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.

32

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

33

I see my life in terms of music.

34

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

35

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

36

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

37

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

38

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

39

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

40

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

41

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

42

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

43

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

44

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

45

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

46

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

47

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

48

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

49

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

50

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.51

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

52

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

53

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

54

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

55

The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.

56

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

57

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

58

This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

59

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

60

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

61

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

62

Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

63

If you want to be in the best shape, diet is super important. You can exercise all you want, but if you're not eating the right foods, it's not going to equal out. You're not going to get the results you want.

64

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

65

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.66

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

67

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

68

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

69

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

70

Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.

71

People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'

72

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

73

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

74

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

75

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

76

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear. Fear is a painful emotion that arises at the thought that we may be harmed or made to suffer. As long as we must trust for survival to our ability to out look or out maneuver the enemy, we have every good reason to be afraid. Fear is torment. To know that love is of God and to enter into the secret place leaning upon the arm of the Beloved, this and only this can cast out fear.

77

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

78

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

79

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

80

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

81

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

82

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

83

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

84

Only a monomaniac gets anything done.

85

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

86

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.

87

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

88

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

89

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

90

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

91

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

92

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

93

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

94

Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.

95

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

96

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

97

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

98

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

99

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

100

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

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