Inspiration Quotes

The Muse honors the working stiff.

~ Steven Pressfield

The time to lead is now.

~ Joelle Charbonneau

One’s own history can be the greatest educator

~ Deborah L. Parker

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.

~ Tim Fargo

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

~ Sharon Duerst

You may not have the greenest yard, but you can take the shit you're given and fertilize your grass into something beautiful!

~ L.m. Fields

As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed

~ Carol Bell

As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine

~ S.r. Crawford

Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.

~ S.r. Crawford

Christ’s Atonement provides more than an opportunity to live a happy life later, it promises and provides for a remarkable life now.

~ Toni Sorenson

We tend to see what we are looking for.

~ Toni Sorenson

Be fueled by the opportunities of today. Do not be passive in your life. Be courageous in driving forward in this journey of life. I know people will try to push you back. I know life will challenge you to find refuge in the past. I know the present induces fear. Do not be fooled into backwards living. Be courageous enough to keep moving forward.

~ Steve Maraboli

My eye sees sacred things.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look into the eyes of an elephant or stop for a moment to marvel at the deep wrinkles on its skin, both of which I believe contain the truths learned from each intentional step their feet and those of their ancestors have placed upon the earth.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

You are not alone in this world; you are the vine from a tree that connects all mankind. Long before you were born, God wrote greatness next to your name.

~ Janet Autherine

We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.

~ Richard Ronald Allan

Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed him at night, bathe him, and put him to bed. Still, can any of us imagine a childhood without it?

~ Andrew Bridge

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

~ Sara Sheridan

Peter Pan has to be the book of my childhood. Come to think of it, it's the book of my adulthood too. It's a book which, in the reading of it, takes me back to editions that I've had and lost, with various illustrators' work in them. It brings back moments sitting reading it with my mother. It brings back my first contact with the Disney cartoon. It brings back standing in the play-yard when I was a kid, when the wind was really blowing, and closing my eyes, spreading my arms and pretending I could fly. It brings back childhood dreams of flying. It brings back the first encounter I ever had with an invented world... Never Never Land was really the first journey I took to an invented world which I believed in wholly and completely. I remember the immense solidarity that I felt with the Lost Boys, with Peter, with the Indians - how much I wanted to be a Red Indian - how much the saving of Tiger Lily meant to me as a kid, how much I wanted to one day wake up and save an Indian squaw from drowning.

~ Clive Barker

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

‎For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

~ L.m. Fields

I always believed that first love would stay in my heart the longest, that it would be reminded through every man I met, through every song and every place I had been too, it hurt like hell to experience my heart crashing into a thousand pieces amongst the floor & the feeling of missing them so bad that my body ached that I spent a lot of time alone wondering if I deserved to be loved the way I love and then I met you & you gently reminded me that I was worthy and in your actions taught me to give love one more chance. So I did and as vulnerable and uncertain it all is, im glad my heart has met someone it wants to open for again.

~ Nikki Rowe

It's never over till it's really over in your mind...

~ Sandhya Jane

There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and the person you love, and a time when love hurts so badly that you will wish you wouldn't wake up. I say this. Always, always, always approach love with the heart of the angel you were born with. Never become bitter and always know that pain goes away. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core. Always see the good, appreciate every moment and remember that love lives on forever.

~ Julieanne O'connor

I am not light nor the absence of it. I am the broad spectrum. Everything that makes you think, want to touch, or taste. Don't box me into that life that you so desperately need to be black and white because that's not me; I won't fit. I am bold, brilliant, and beautiful, I will sparkle and shimmer every hue. Ever changing. Undefinable. So do not give me limits or make me try to fit. There is no containing subtle softness careening into the harsh and dominant, every faucet creating a reaction which will cause you to feel and know you are alive. - Kendal Waller

~ Kendal Waller

But perhaps there is another, more personal reason for my disagreement with Ramin: I cannot imagine myself feeling at home in a place that is indifferent to what has become my true home, a land with no borders and few restrictions, which I have taken to calling “the Republic of Imagination.” I think of it as Nabokov’s “somehow, somewhere” or Alice’s backyard, a world that runs parallel to the real one, whose occupants need no passport or documentation. The only requirements for entry are an open mind, a restless desire to know and an indefinable urge to escape the mundane.

~ Azar Nafisi

Whatever you struggle with is an indication there is key information you haven't accessed yet.

~ Phumi Ngwane

Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

~ Steve Jobs

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die, I know I lived.

~ Jill Telford

The sky is a canvas, so paint your own life.

~ Jada Berglund

My God, my GodMay there be no endTo the sea, to the sand,The splash of the water,The glow of the sky,The prayer of man

~ Hannah Senesh

The 'all-for-me-and-only-me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.

~ The Truth

The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in my line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.

~ Carl Sagan

So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for these people, and that became my courage.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

~ Amos Gideon Buba

So he could not be hasty or impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.God placed them along my path. He had surprised himself with the thought. Until then, he had considered the omens to be things of this world, Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. he had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do.

~ Paulo Coelho

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

~ Jennifer L. Roberts