Inspirational Quotes · Page 1,663

Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart,

— Paula Abdul

“A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness”

— Seth Czerepak

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy myself, but I didn't.

— Woody Allen

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

— Friedrich Schiller

We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. --Beldin

— David Eddings

When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!

— Trent Reznor

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

— Boyd K. Packer

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it;…

— Joel Osteen

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly…

— William S. Burroughs

“I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and…

— Jeff Goins

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

— Cathleen Schine

“He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Stop throwing away days, weeks, months, and years by simply day-dreaming about what you wish your life would be.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Make sure you know the Bible well enough to figure out if what someone says is fact or their own opinions. If…

— Amanda Penland

Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity

— Albert Einstein

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

— Mike Phillips

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

— Edward de Bono

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

— Joseph Butler

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.

— John Adams

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

— Anonymous

Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

— Vladimir Lenin

If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.

— Anita Bryant

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

— Emily Dickinson

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

— Elbert Hubbard

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

— John Steinbeck

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

— Maya Angelou

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

— Danny DeVito

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.

— Patricia Hampl

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

— Dave Brubeck

“Our dreams for tomorrow inspire us to live today.”

— Tricia Marsh

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

— Samuel Johnson

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

— John Milton

“You are what you are and you do what you do, and that was good enough.”

— Fredrik Backman

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

— Eric Maisel

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

— Heinrich Heine

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery