Inspire Quotes

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

I read; I travel; I become

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don't.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

A human life is a schooling for eternity.

Life is about timing.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

I expand in abundance, success and love every day as I inspire those around me to do the same.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

Life drew me and I followed it.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Hold fast to youth and beauty.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart....

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.