Quotes about inspirational
inspirational lying artist
[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight. Gustave Flaubert
inspirational humility stupidity
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
inspirational life art
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
inspirational life poetry
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
inspirational life work
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
inspirational life wise
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
inspirational travel adventure
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
inspirational men rumor
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
inspirational writing games
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game. Grantland Rice
inspirational motivational dating
Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating. Greg Behrendt
inspirational guy lines
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. Gordon Parks
inspirational children growing-up
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. Gilbert K. Chesterton
inspirational inspirational-life adventure
Adventure is the champagne of life.
inspirational strong practice
of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
inspirational inspiring graduation
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
inspirational new-year eye
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
inspirational earth persons
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
inspirational life travel
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
inspirational education book
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
inspirational happiness rain
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
inspirational perfectionism not-perfect
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
inspirational inspiring loyalty
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
inspirational motivational success
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
inspirational book reading
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
inspirational motivational character
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden
inspirational life being-happy
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
inspirational taxation libertarian
The power to tax is the power to destroy. John Marshall
inspirational long alive
I am invincible, as long as I'm alive. John Mayer
inspirational life motivational
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
inspirational business past
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes
inspirational life-changing carpe-diem
Ideas shape the course of history.
inspirational change lying
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
inspirational positive leadership
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. John Madden