Inspirational Quotes · Page 2,502

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

— Eileen Chang

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

— Charles Osgood

You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can

— Steve Goodman

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

— Benjamin Franklin

I always wanted to be a criminal, but not this big a one.

— Charles Starkweather

Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

— Albert Schweitzer

“Motivation is the essence of human progress.”

— Yahya Mohamed

“Not what happens to you But how you accept it Is of paramount importance.”

— Sri Chinmoy

“I wouldn’t let the old voices dictate me; I wouldn’t let anyone dictate who I was anymore. I was strong enough to…

— J M Northup

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

— Jandy Nelson

You're in charge but don't touch the controls. Recounting what the two Russian cosmonauts tell her each time they leave the Mir…

— Shannon Lucid

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

— Frederick Lenz

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

— Thomas Carlyle

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

Sometimes the strongest women are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fights battles that nobody knows…

— Anonymous

“You know you've found your calling, when you would rather do it and fail, than not do it.”

— Alexander Kjerulf

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

— Dan Millman

“We cannot force the development of mindfulness.”

— Allan Lokos

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The fans are on, let's see which way the shit blows.”

— B.V. Larson

If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all

— Hamza Yusuf

The first step is you have to say that you can.

— Will Smith

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

— Winston Churchill

When you most succeed, you do so by seeming not to act at all.

— Stella Adler

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

— Nick Offerman

All we can do about bullies is wish them happiness & celebrate our own.

— Ariana Grande

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

— Arthur Koestler

I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

— Oscar Wilde

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tomorrow we'll not only seize the day, we'll throttle it.

— Bill Watterson

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

— Sasha Pivovarova

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

— John Calvin

“The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie.”

— Bette Lee Crosby

To become a great leader, you have to become a great person first.

— MlY AB

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

The best way to win a game is not to lose it.

— Erk Russell

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

— Carrie Mae Weems

Beer is a wholesome liquor…it abounds with nourishment

— Benjamin Rush