Inspiring Quotes

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Work is love made visible.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

How long should you try? Until.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.