Inspiring Quotes

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I always say, the bigger the hair, the smaller the hips!

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Surprise yourself every day with your own courage.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Whatever you put your attention on in this life, will increase in your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin increasingly to make their presence known to you.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Money is the best deodorant.

Success is about creating benefit for all and enjoying the process. If you focus on this & adopt this definition, success is yours.

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.