Inspiration Quotes

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

Nothing is far from God.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

To love God is something greater than to know Him.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always

If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.