Inspirational Quotes

What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

~ Guy Finley

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

~ Paulo Coelho

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

~ Epicurus

Never look back, you may only find what you left or let you go.

~ Stefanos Livos

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

~ John Kuypers

When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.

~ John Kuypers

When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.

~ John Kuypers

Curiosity is god’s greatest gift to man, but my gift is a little amplified.

~ Onaiza Khan

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

~ Amit Kalantri

Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

~ Debasish Mridha

Like instinctively, love differently, lust indefinitely.

~ Dnc

He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

~ Robert Jordan

A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

~ Debasish Mridha

I believe that everyone is a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change. All we need to do is acknowledge and understand this and then help others to also understand the same. That’s all it takes to be a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change.

~ Jeroninio Almeida

A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

~ Jacob Kaye

Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.

~ Kalashatra Govinda

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

~ Mark Haddon

Here's the reality of life,' he said. ' You make decisions with imperfect information and achieve imperfect results. The alternative is to never make a decision and never achieve results.

~ Noelle Hancock

No delays in expressing decisions. Whether its a Yes or No... Right or Wrong... Just tell that for heaven sake.

~ Giridhar Alwar

Out of the decisions that we make in life, our Self emerges. What we choose in life is not the thing chosen out there, but oneself.

~ Luis Enrique Cavazos

In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Make more decisions everyday. Because a decision is a summoning of life. That's why a little chaos is good for you, because often you don't make a decision until you get yourself in a jam. And then, in the middle of the jam, you make a decision, but that decision summons Life Force. Have you ever been a place where you couldn't quite make up your mind and you just felt sort of limp? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And then you decided, and you felt alive again. We want you to know that you'll never get it done. so don't approach this from, I gotta get on this because you're not ever going to get it done, anyway. And the other thing we want you to know is, you cannot get it wrong. So, make a decision. Let it flow.

~ Abraham Hicks

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

~ Chris Prentiss

Everyone is entitled to making bad decisions from time to time, but the true test is in how you handle things after those decisions have been made.

~ Alicia T. Bowens

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

~ Rick Riordan

So what are you going to do? Let your future be shaped by the injustices and cruelties of the past, or do you shape your own future? Do you walk down those mean streets without becoming mean yourself, or do you lie down and whimper? Victim of everyone, or the hero of your own story – those are your only choices.

~ Ralph E. Vaughan

I write not because I want to but because I am destined to.

~ Jules Haigler

It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!

~ Yael Shahar

We will always come against people who don't like our books. People who think what we're doing is trivial or cliché or tries too hard. But there will always be people who love what we do and we have to take those good moments to heart.

~ Duncan B. Barlow

Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

~ William Goldman

Writing's in the nouns.

~ Lori Roy

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

~ Orhan Pamuk

The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day. Make the time, keep at it, and you'll be a real writer before you know it.

~ Jonathan Maas

At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then - and only then - it is handed to you. From the corner of your eye you see motion. Something is moving through the air and headed your way.

~ The Writing Life

An opportunity lost may have motivated us to find a satisfying alternative. Adversity or suffering may have taught us certain important skills. Some writers have felt new appreciation for their lives after surviving a serious illness or disability. A fortunate outcome does not invalidate the unfortunate aspect.

~ Nan Merrick Phifer

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

~ Dani Shapiro

When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.

~ T.a. Uner

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

~ Alfred Adler

(In part, quoting Robert Keegan from Harvard):'When we take the risk of really witnessing another human being, when we validate their human experience, we risk becoming recruited to their welfare.' I allow my empathy to be engaged, and once it is - because my feelings help teach me what my values are - I'm on the path for which there is no return. I am inexorably an advocate when I allow my empathy to be engaged.

~ Ashley Judd