1500 Quotes

1500 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Compiled by Wizard

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. - Ayn Rand

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. - Rita Mae Brown

A dream is a wish your heart makes. - The Supremes

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. -John Lennon

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. -Elbert Hubbard

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. - Helen Keller

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Confucius A life lived in fear is a life half lived. - Proverb

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -Charles M. Schwab

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh. - Raymond Hitchcock

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. -Rabindranath Tagore

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open. - Frank Zappa

A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. - Leonardo da Vinci

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them. - Leonard Louis Levinson

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Churchill

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. - George S. Patton

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - William Shedd A smile is a light in the window of your face to show your heart is at home. - Source Unknown

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration. - Edmondo De Amicis

A year from now you may wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb Above all to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee can't fly either, but the bumblebee doesn't know anything about the laws of aerodynamics, so it goes ahead and flies anyway. - Igor Sikorsky

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away. - Lafcadio Hearn

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli

Actions speak louder than words. - Proverb

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace. - Cecilia Bartoli

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative. - H. G. Wells Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. - C.S. Lewis

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration. - Tracy Chapman

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your

inspiration. - Elvis Stojko

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to

explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. - Wayne Dyer

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. - Nicholas Sparks

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack Kerouac

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. - Winston Churchill

All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. - Demosthenes All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,

happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. - Siddhartha Gautama All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C.S. Lewis

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Always desire to learn something useful. - Sophocles

Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino Always remember money is not everything but make sure that you have made enough before talking such nonsense. - Bill Gate

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. - Nick Cave

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. - Mahatma Gandhi

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. -Pope John Paul I

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. - Source Unknown

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. - G.K. Chesterton

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. - John Sergeant Wise

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can. - Grete Waitz

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. - John Philip Sousa Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm - Unknown

Anything Is Possible. - Origin Unknown

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. - Voltaire

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. - The Bible

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. - Carl Van Vechten As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela

As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you. - Karen

Clodfelder

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. - The Bible

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Sir Winston Churchill Attitude is everything. - Origin Unknown

Be all you can be. - US Army

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come. - C.S. Lewis

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. - Saint Teresa of Avila

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. - Origin Unknown Be here now. - Ram Dass

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. - Plato

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb Be the best that you can be. - Origin Unknown

Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. - John Donne

Be yourself, who else is better qualified? - Frank J. Giblin

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, She doesn't have what it takes. They will say, Women don't have what it takes. -Clare Boothe Luce

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally. - Cat Stevens

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration. - Duncan Sheik Becoming a star may not be in your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves. - Bryan Lindsay

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. - Ernest Newman

Before a painter put brush to canvas, he sees his picture mentally ... If you think of .: in terms of a painting, what do you see? Is the picture you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind. - Thomas Dreier

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration

becomes something that's really worthwhile. - Jim Carrey Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. - William James

Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. - German Proverb Begin with the end in mind. - Doug Flynn

Behold this day for it is yours to make. - Black Elk

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. - Marian Edelman

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn Vos Savant

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles Kettering

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. - Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself. - Origin Unknown

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. - Dr David Schwartz

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt Believing requires action. - James E. Faust

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

Better late than never - Proverb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused. - Origin Unknown

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting -Elizabeth Bibesco

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. - Seneca But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. - Georg Brandes

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams… - William Butler Yeats

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. - Arne Jacobsen

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! - Charlotte Brontë By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. - Ralph Waldo Emerson By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. - Rabindranath Tagore

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day- Robert Frost

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.) - Latin

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. - Eileen Caddy Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don’t take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. - Sam Walton (founder of Walmart)

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration. - Birch Bayh

Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. - - Muhammad Ali

Chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur Change comes from within. - Origin Unknown

Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become. - Winston Churchill

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy

Change your thoughts, change your life. - James Allen

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success

achieved - Helen Keller

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napolean Hill

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. - Thor Heyerdahl

Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall! Come to the

edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. - Guillaume Apollinaire Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Origin Unknown

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. - George Bernard Shaw

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Josh Billings

Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong -Unknown

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Count Your Blessings. - Og Mandino

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. - Swami Sivananda

Create like a god; command like a king; work like a slave. - Constantin Brancusi Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. - Kenya Hara Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. - Leo Burnett

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. - David Farragut

Dance as though no one is watching you, love as though you have never been hurt before, sing as though no one can hear you,live as though heaven is on earth. -Souza.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure - George E Woodberry

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. - Helen Keller

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. - Spinoza

Destiny is not a matter of chance, It is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, But rather something to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class. - Beyonce Knowles

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. - William Ellery Channing

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun. -Ang Lee

Discipline isn't on your back needling you with imperatives. It is at your side encouraging you with incentives. - Cybil Stanton

Do first things first, and second things not at all. - Peter Drucker. Do it Now! - Napoleon Hill

Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand. - Zululand Proverb

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not learn from your mistakes, learn from the mistakes of others to that you do not make any. - Sean Karsten

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. - Vincent Van Gogh

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect. - Swami Vivekananda

Do not take life too seriously.You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. - C.S. Lewis

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. - Baruch Spinoza

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - St Francis of De Sales

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. - Vissarion Belinsky

Do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. - The Bible

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are! - Theodore Roosevelt Do what you love and the money will follow - Marsha Sinetar

Do what you love to do and commit to doing it in an excellent fashion. - Brian Tracy Do what you say so others will say what you do - Robert H. Connelly

Don’t count the days, make the days count. - Muhammad Ali

Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. - Walter Hagen

Don’t let someone be a priority in your life when u are still an option in their life. -Unknown

Don’t make me walk when I want to fly. - Galina Doyla

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. - Thomas Jefferson

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. - Earl Shoaf Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. -Abraham Lincoln

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Harold Whitman

Don't ask, don't tell. Everything lies in silence. - Source Unknown

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

Don't dream it be it. - Rocky Horror Picture Show Don't ever give up. - Origin Unknown

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny -Kathryn Carpenter

Don't go through life grow through life - Eric Butterworth Don't hide your light under a bushel. - The Bible

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try - Unknown

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams! - Origin Unknown

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself. - Billy Joel

Don't postpone joy. - Bumper Sticker Don't quit. - Origin Unknown

Don't sweat the small stuff. - Richard Carlson

Don't take life to seriously because you'll never get out alive - Josh Shippe

Don't try to great in all things. Pick a few things to be good at and be the best you can. - Liz Ashe

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. - George Lucas

Dreams are not without meaning wherever that may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration. - Paracelsus

Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them. - Peter Reese Dreams are renewable no matter what our age - Dale Turner

Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances. - Abraham Tucker

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests. - George Adams Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. -Charles Swindoll

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. - Groucho Marx

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop. - Mother Teresa

Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside. - Richard David Bach

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration. - Bill Frist

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information. - E. Franklin Frazier

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - William Yeats

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things - Antonio Smith

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born. - Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. - Victor Kiam

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste. -Swami Vivekananda

Even the longest hours come to an end. - Jose Raul Bernardo

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Every cloud has a silver lining. - Proverb

Every day in every way I am getting better and better. - Origin Unknown Every dog has his day. - Proverb

Every great inspiration is but an experiment. - Charles Ives Every man dies. Not every man truly lives - Braveheart (Movie) Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. - Voltaire

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'. -Norman Lindsay

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back. -Anonymous

Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock. - Page McConnell

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds. – Norman Vincent Peale

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident. -Arthur Schoppenhauer

Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to

serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. - David

Cronenberg

Everyday, give yourself a good mental shampoo. - Dr. Sara Jordan

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid, or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is. - Henry Miller

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story - John Barth

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

Everyone who has taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it makes a difference. - Nolan Buhnell Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now. - Robin Gibb

Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end. - Unknown Everything you need is already inside. Just do it. - Bill Bowerman (Nike)

Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want - Richard Koch

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.. - Albert Schweitzer

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible. - Origin Unknown

Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to become better. But don't get upset when they fail. It helps them keep trying. - Source Unknown

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. - Dan Stanford Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith Failing to plan is planning to fail. - Origin Unknown

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford

Failure is taking the path that everyone else does; success is making your own path -Unknown

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote Faith can move mountains. - Origin Unknown

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. -Hebrews 11:1

Fall seven times, stand up eight! - Japanese Proverb

Families are the compasses that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. - Brad Henry

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though

chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. - Baruch Spinoza

Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. - Source Unknown

Feel the fear and do it anyway. - Susan Jeffers

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein

Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel. Meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life. - Lawrence K. Fish

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. - Shigenori Kameoka

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. - Seneca

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -Epictetus

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi

Focus is a neccesity toward success - Brad Colley

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. - Sasha Cohen Follow Your Dreams. - Unknown

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them. - Tom Glazer

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration. - Thomas Carper

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. - Sean Lennon

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent van Gogh

For with God all things are possible. - The Bible

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. - Dr. Robert Anthony

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop that picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. -Norman Vincent Peale

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. - Unknown

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. - Ed Cunningham

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought, the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. - Eyvind Johnson

From what we get, we can make a living: from what we give, makes a life. - Arthur Ashe

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to

religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom. - Seth Low

Furthermore, the Latin American nuclear-weapon free zone which is now nearing completion has become in several respects an example which, notwithstanding the different characteristics of each region, is rich in inspiration. - Alfonso G. Robles Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration - Thomas Edison

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good. - Vince Lombardi

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. -Theodore Roosevelt

Get busy living or get busy dying. - Stephen King

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another. - Wanda Jackson

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. - Chinese Proverb

Give it all you've got because you never know if there's going to be a next time. -Danielle Ingrum

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. - Archimedes

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth. - Aristotle

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway. - Mother Teresa

Give your work 100% but save the rest for yourself, friends and family - Robert H. Connelly

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak…sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. - Unknown

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? - Eliza Dushku Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. - C.S. Lewis

God doesn't make junk. - Origin Unknown

God never sends us more than we can handle. - Mother Theresa

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Serenity Prayer Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. -Jim Horning

Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection. - Joseph R. Cooke Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. - Peter S. Beagle

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds have purposes others have wishes. - Washington Irving Great oaks from little acorns grow - Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false

knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. - Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a Choice. - Barry Neil Kaufman

Happiness is a journey, not a destination. - Father Alfred D’Souza Happiness is a state of mind. - Origin Unknown

Happiness is not a destination in which you arrive; it is your journey there. If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want. - Anonymous.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hills

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama XIV

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. - Zig Ziglar

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony -Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness writes white. It does not show up on the page. - Henry de Montherlant Hard work pays off. - Origin Unknown

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation. - Eugen Herrigel

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have. - C.S. Lewis

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life. - Spurgeon

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Origin Unknown

He who hesitates is lost! - Proverb

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. - Martin Luther King

He who never made a mistake has never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles He who stops being better, stops being good. - Oliver Cromwell

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. - William Feather

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? -Benjamin Franklin

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark. - Lord John Worfin Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly -Langston Hughes

Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. - Samuel Johnson

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after. - Dr. Robert Anthony

Hope springs eternal. - Alexander Pope

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? -Anthony Robbins

How can you be free from fears? Fear no one, but love every man that you see. We are living in fear because our mind holds negative thoughts about people. Are you afraid of your loved ones? - Ty Luu

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. - Stephen R. Covey

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver

How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world. - Anne Frank

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. - Lou Holtz

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? - Siddhartha Gautama

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. - Patty Duke

Human requirements are the inspiration for art. - Stephen Gardiner

Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. You need courage to hold onto happiness. - Momoko Ryugasaki

Hunker down. - Origin Unknown

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character. - Robert Englund

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. - Winston Churchill

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people. - Amanda Burton

I always try to try my hardest to the point where my sprint becomes a run, my run becomes a jog, my jog becomes a walk - Robert Ervin

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it. -Thomas Jefferson

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow,

misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key. - Charles Fletcher Lummis

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -Albert Einstein

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest

mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. - Og Mandino I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan. - Michael K. Simpson

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas A. Edison

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines; nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. - Harry Shearer

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. – Hellen Keller

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. - Stephen R. Covey

I am the captain of my soul. - William Ernest Henley I am totally in the hands of the Lord. - Gordon B. Hinckley

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. - Eleanor Roosevelt I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H.L. Mencken

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not

degradation. - Andrew Cuomo

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. -Neil Diamond

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wonder to the left or right or up or down. And looking back is fatal. - William J Lock

I can, therefore I am. - Simone Weil

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones. - John Cage

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. - Socrates

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. - Margaret Anderson I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! - Henry Miller

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act. - G.K. Chesterton

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. - Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -Bill Cosby

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. - Ken Venturi

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility. - Eliot Spitzer I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation. - Lorrie Fair

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone - Bill Cosby

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it? - John Davidson

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count. - Robert Lloyd

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation. - Robert Mapplethorpe

I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. - C.S. Lewis

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. - Dave Matthews

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. - Don DeLillo

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. - Donnie Iris I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it. - Picabo Street I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be

convincing. It's the same career. - Anne Parillaud

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet. - Ancient Persian Saying

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t work out, that’s when I’ve really learned. - Carol Burnett

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. - Judy Collins I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. - Maria Mitchell

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. - Thomas Alva Edison I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves. - Teri Garr

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do. - Maynard James Keenan

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation. - Leigh Steinberg I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work. - Wyclef Jean

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. - Jerome K. Jerome

I live my life in widening circles That reach out across the world. - Rainer Maria Rilke I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

I long to speak out about the intense inspiration that comes to me, from the lives of strong women. - Ruth Benedict

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them. - Graeme Murphy

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue. - Donna Dixon

I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do. - Bob Marley

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time - waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God - it changes me. - C.S. Lewis

I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role. - Deborah Cox

I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum. - Hermann Maier

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people. - John Henry Newman I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong. - Peter King

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you. - Martin Yan

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz. - Sonny Rollins

I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me. - Buddy Rich

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality. -Marilyn vos Savant

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book. - Jackie Collins

I think that sometimes the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is this gray line between will, passion and self-belief that says, 'I'm going to do this'. - Howard Schultz

I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns. - Alex Lifeson

I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD. - Deborah Cox I think therefore I am - Rene Descartes

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? -Peter Tosh

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. - Markus Wolf

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions. - Sidney Sheldon

I used to say 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. - Jim Rohn

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. - Mario Cuomo

I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved! - Robert H Schuller

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. - Origin Unknown I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. - Orson Scott Card

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. - Britney Spears

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion. - Major Taylor

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. -Jack London

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. - Benjamin Spock

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration. - Jackie DeShannon

I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. - Roald Dahl

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games.26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and

services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one. - Daryl Hannah

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids. -Rob Morrow

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing. - Alexis Arguello

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration. - Colleen Atwood

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. - Alfred North Whitehead If a man does his best, what else is there? - George S. Patton

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. - Henry David Thoreau

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist. - Richard King

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come. - William Shakespeare

If at first you don't succeed, try again. - W.C Fields

If God gave us all good days, how would we learn from our mistakes? - Unknown If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? - Rabbi Hillel

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. - Source Unknown

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today. - Barry Mann

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. - Ben Harper

IF it is to be it is up to me. - Origin Unknown

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. - Joan Collins

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. - Henry Ford

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently. - Placido Domingo

If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that. - Frances Burnett

If not us, who, if not now, when? - Origin Unknown

If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world. - Joan Boysenko

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient. -Greg Ginn

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, its travel and experiencing different environments. - Marc Newson If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. - Jim Rohn

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill. - Unknown

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. - Stephen R. Covey

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -Abraham Maslow

If the path less traveled were the easy path, then all would take it, thus making greatness simply average. - Shawn Eckert

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. - Tom Wilkinson

If there is a will, there is a way. - Origin Unknown

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas A. Edison

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Gail Sheehy

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Brads

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation. - Dorothy Denning

If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose. - Unknown

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. - Origin Unknown

If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. …Everyone says, Woe unto you people!! Who says, Woe unto me that I cannot help you? The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am! - Swami Vivekananda

If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most reassuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley

If you build it, he will come. - Field of Dreams (Movie) If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. -William A. Ward

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. - David Carradine

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three. - Robert Motherwell

If you can't you must, and if you must you can. - Anthony Robbins

If you do not have a well thought out plan for your life, you will live a mediocre life -Savio DSilva

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. - Nora Roberts

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. - Jim Rohn

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. - Nora Roberts

If you don't like something, change it, If you can't change it, change your attitude. -Maya Angelou

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. - John Atkinson If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. - Unknown

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. - Will Rogers If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want. - Anonymous

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet. - Isaac B. Singer

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30%

managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. - Dee Hock If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. - Noel Coward

If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. - Somerset Maugham

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. - Rabindranath Tagore If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase. - James E. Faust

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. - Origin Unknown

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right. - Henry Ford If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. - Ben Nicholas

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain. - Jimmy Durante

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. -Origin Unknown

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. - E. Joseph Cossman

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page. - Mark Houlahan

If you’re going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. - Marie Osmond

If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. - John A. Simone, Sr

If you’ve been going through life as a sleepwalker, it’s time to wake up. The journey begins right now. - Chris Guillebeau

If you're young you are lucky. If you're old you are even luckier - Robert H. Connelly If youth knew; if age could. - Sigmund Freud

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one. - John Lennon

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore

Roosevelt

In between goals is a thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed. - Sid Caesar In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning. - Utada Hikaru

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity. - Adam Schiff In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up. - Larry Niven