Explore Quotes on Inspiring

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Your silence will not protect you.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.