Quotes on Inspiration

There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

Let go into the mystery_x000D_ Let yourself go_x000D_ You've got to open up your heart_x000D_ That's all I know_x000D_ Trust what I say and do what you're told_x000D_ Baby, and all your dirt will turn_x000D_ Into gold.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.