Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Work EthicProfessionalismBalanceDedication Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
WorkResilienceOvercoming Adversity My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
ChristmasSpiritualityCommercialismTrue Meaning I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.
PleasureConsequenceModerationSuffering The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Self-BeliefInfluenceExcellence To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
MusicCreativitySelf-Expression My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
OpennessPerspectiveSpiritualityUnderstanding God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
ReligionSpirituality You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
PeaceLoveServiceCompassion Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
AidLife SavingEfficiency Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
EvacuationHurricaneAdversity I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
LossLoveGriefMortality There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
ChallengeGuidanceChoicePerseverance I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
Self-doubtReflectionHumility I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
ResponsibilityGovernanceConsequenceOwnership You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.
FamilyBooksIndependencePersonal Growth And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.
Literary PreferenceAuthorsBooks There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
IntellectOriginalityPerceptionIndividuality The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
ConflictIntoleranceMethodologies It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
OptimismHopePerspectiveEncouragement It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
SufferingRevengeBlame It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
HelpInvestmentInfrastructureCollaboration If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Work-Life BalanceLifestyleContentmentComfort I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
RepublicanismSocial ViewsDefense I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
EarthHomeHumanityResponsibility No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
Technical DevelopmentPotentialCapability Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
ActionFearConfidenceCourageInaction Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
PerseveranceDeterminationOvercoming Challenges If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.
EducationFuture JobsCareer Readiness By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
Self-ImprovementHumilityInner DriveCharacter The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
TemptationCowardiceProtection There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
LifeDisciplineGrowthGratitudePotential Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
