Quotes on Inspiring

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.