Quotes on Inspiring

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated

In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.