Inspiring Quotes

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

If I walk with the world, I can't walk with God.

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

Your silence will not protect you.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

You are your best thing

Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.