Quotes on Inspirational

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Belief creates the actual fact.

I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry