Inspirational Quotes · Page 2,832

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

— Royal Robbins

The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot,…

— Rajneesh

My hovercraft is full of eels.

— John Cleese

“When you push people to a point where they have nothing to lose, the rest of the world has everything to lose.”

— A.C. Flanagan

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

— Virginia Woolf

In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to…

— Elizabeth Dole

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

— Joshua Redman

And as I'm striving to change the world, I will be happy.

— Sam Berns

Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.

— Robin Sharma

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

— Susan Sontag

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the…

— R. Lee Ermey

My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.

— Daesung

...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something.

— David Sedaris

When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better.

— Tony Robbins

Sometimes we know not where or how far we are going until we stop and think about just how far we have…

— Jan Hellriegel

To prescribe medicine for the dead and to give advice to the old is the same thing.

— Vikrant Parsai

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

— Confucius

You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it.

— Hans Reichenbach

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

If I were to begin life again, I should want it just as it was, only I would open my eyes a…

— Jenny_pajaron

Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!

— Peter Julian Eymard

I just wanted what was outside to be different.

— Joe Dempsie

“When you decide to be better than you were yesterday and maintain this attitude, you are going to the peak.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

— Nancy Gibbs

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

— Mark Twain

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

— William Ruckelshaus

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the…

— William J. Clinton

“Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.”

— D.R. Silva

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

— Samuel Reshevsky

Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things!

— Tom Lehrer

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

— Chinua Achebe

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

— Bob Uecker

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

— George W. Crane

“There is only one Human race but many nations with diverse tribes.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

— Wendell Berry

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

— Will Shetterly

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act, that has less to do with pain and more to…

— Shane Koyczan

I love Friends, so I try to bring Jennifer Aniston's mannerisms to my show.

— Selena

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

— Publilius Syrus

“Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, lemme tell you. Those are big years. Everybody always thinks of it as a time of adolescence—just getting…

— Lidia Yuknavitch