Inspiration Quotes

Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.

Love is the absence of judgment.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

You have good days and bad days.

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.