Quotes about inspiring
inspiring writing creative
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. Maya Angelou
inspiring persistence people
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. Maya Angelou
inspiring writing frozen-lake
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. Maya Angelou
inspiring courage thoughtful
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Maya Angelou
inspiring pain real
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is shown in language. We need language. Maya Angelou
inspiring running book
Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out. Maya Angelou
inspiring memories losing
Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them. Mitch Albom
inspiring-love spiritual-love worst
She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me. Mitch Albom
inspiring knowing mind
We can't change minds without knowing what's in them. John F. Kerry
inspiring religious causes
We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause. John F. Kerry
inspiring hands way
The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely. John Elkington
inspiring strong-women smart
I was smart enough to go through any door that opened. Joan Rivers
inspiring money thinking
Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it. Frank A. Clark
inspiring perseverance failure
The only failure is not to try. George Clooney
inspiring okay not-okay
I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
inspiring initiative
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. Louise Hay
inspiring art thoughtful
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might. Madeleine L'Engle
inspiring humility humble
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time. Madeleine L'Engle
inspiring humility throwing
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. Madeleine L'Engle
inspiring friends noses
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose. John Green
inspiring pain thinking
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. John Green
inspiring education business
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling
inspiring thinking use
If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. Linus Torvalds
inspiring patience powerful
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
inspiring helping-others purpose
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. Leo Buscaglia
inspiring risk economic
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time. Lawrence Summers
inspiring people enough
After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves. Leon Uris
inspiring success hero
When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. Joseph Campbell
inspiring memorial-day courage
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell
inspiring inspire problem
All life is problem solving Karl Popper
inspiring real soul
Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure. John Legend
inspiring kids want
I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends. Jodie Foster
inspiring mothers-day broke
We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers. Jimmy Carl Black