Inspiring Quotes

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

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

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

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

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

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Life is full of surprises.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.