Inspire Quotes - Page 5

• 

  The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

  "Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.

  544 Copy quote

  Show source

• Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Editing, Space

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.33, Macmillan

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

  Gena Lee Nolin

  Good Morning, Smile, Children

  49 Copy quote

• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

  Dorothy Parker

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Business, Thinking

  34 Copy quote

• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

  Jay-Z

  School, Class, Pay

  Song: Swagga Like Us

  205 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fun, Inspiration, Government

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.176, University of Georgia Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is accepting what is and working from that.

  Gloria Naylor

  Life, Accepting What Is, Life Is

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.85, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is a tragedy full of joy.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Follow Your Heart, Joy

  New York Times, January 29, 1979.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have faith in yourself and in the future.

  Edward Kennedy

  Have Faith, Faith In Yourself, Lifts

  13 Copy quote

• Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

  Norman Cousins

  Respect, Meaning Of Life, Reverence For Life

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every failure is a step to success.

  William Whewell

  Moving On, Success, Congratulations

  William Whewell (1852). “Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England”, p.101, London : J.W. Parker ; Cambridge : J. Deighton

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you are good to others, you are best to yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiring, Giving, Acts Of Kindness

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.282, Oxford University Press, USA

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Way

  46 Copy quote

• Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

  Catherine Wilson

  Drinking, Culture, Ethics

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

  Carmine Gallo

  Leadership, Dream, Passion

  7 Copy quote

• Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

  Eldar Djangirov

  People, Musician

  4 Copy quote

• How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

  Ernst Toller

  Life, Thinking, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Life, Mean, Stink

  8 Copy quote

• If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

  Jane Rule

  Life, People, Silence

  8 Copy quote

• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  Edmund Wilson

  Life, Style, Orchestra

  10 Copy quote