Quotes on Inspirational

Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It asks that women be free to define themselves-instead of having their identity defined for them, time and again, by their culture and their men.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.