Best 30 quotes in «famous inspirational quotes» category

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Service is what life is all about.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Being that can be understood is language.