Inspirational Quotes · Page 2,696

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.

— Coco Chanel

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

— Victor Hugo

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

— George Hearst

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

— David Elkind

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain

— Method Man

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

— Nelson Mandela

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.

— Joel Osteen

Inspiration moves one from Pessimism to Optimism, from Doubt to Faith, from Despair to Hope, and from Darkness to Light!

— Anonymous

It's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers.

— Drake

“My mother was like a cat who could never catch the tail of happiness because she never stopped chasing it.”

— Nora Okja Keller

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

— Portia de Rossi

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

— Confucius

Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.

— Bear Grylls

Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real…

— Ralph C. Smedley

I'm not gonna be perfect, but I'm gonna try stuff.

— Tom Kelley

“May be it's time... Not to give up, to let go”

— The Originals

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

— Dorothy Allison

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

— Arthur Baer

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

— John Wycliffe

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

— Edmund Wilson

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

— Robert Morrison MacIver

“You should not measure your worth by how much money you have in your bank account”

— Justice Okafor

Either you will do now what it takes or ten years from now you wish that you had.

— Marshall Sylver

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

— Otto von Bismarck

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

— Samuel Beckett

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

— Aristotle

Don't expect life to be fair. Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

— Anonymous

I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.

— Tyson Gay

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.

— Josh Billings

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

— Anonymous

A man's height is the height of his thought.

— Vikrant Parsai

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

— Tariq Ramadan

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

— Bill Walton

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

— Anonymous

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose you resolved to effect.

— William Shakespeare

Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

— Meher Baba

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

— Andrei Tarkovsky