Inspiring famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
-- Aaron Siskind -
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
To create is, first and foremost, to create time.
-- Achille Mbembe -
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
-- Adam Braun -
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
-- Adrienne Rich -
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.
-- Adyashanti -
If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.
-- Ajahn Chah -
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
-- Alain de Botton -
Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
-- Alan Thicke -
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
-- Alan Watts -
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
-- Alan Watts -
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
-- Alan Watts -
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
-- Alan Watts -
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
-- Alan Watts -
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever....
-- Alan Watts -
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
-- Alan Watts -
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.
-- Alan Watts -
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
-- Alan Watts -
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
-- Alan Watts -
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
-- Alan Watts -
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
-- Alan Watts -
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
-- Alan Watts -
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
-- Alan Watts -
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
-- Alan Watts -
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
-- Alan Watts -
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
-- Alan Watts -
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein -
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein -
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
-- Albert Einstein -
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
-- Albert Einstein -
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
-- Albert Einstein -
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
-- Albert Einstein -
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-- Albert Einstein -
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
-- Albert Einstein -
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
-- Albert Einstein -
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
-- Albert Einstein -
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
-- Albert Einstein -
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
-- Albert Ellis -
And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
-- Albert Maltz -
The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.
-- Aldo Gucci -
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
-- Aldo Leopold -
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope -
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
-- Alice Sebold -
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
-- Alice Walker -
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
-- Alice Walker -
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
-- Alice Walker -
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
-- Alice Walker -
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
-- Alicia Keys -
The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
-- Alison Gopnik -
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
-- Alison Gopnik -
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
-- Allan Bloom -
I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.
-- Allan Holdsworth -
Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.
-- Alpha Conde -
I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.
-- Althea Gibson -
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
-- Alvin Toffler -
I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing.
-- Amerie -
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Go to where the silence is and say something.
-- Amy Goodman -
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
-- Amy Poehler -
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
-- Amy Tan -
I am not confident that Europe can make it.
-- Ana Patricia Botin -
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin -
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
-- Anais Nin -
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-- Anais Nin -
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
-- Anatole France -
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
-- Anatole France -
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
-- Andre Breton -
Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
-- Andy Rooney -
Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.
-- Andy Summers -
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
-- Angela Davis -
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
-- Angela Merkel -
If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
-- Angelina Jolie -
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
-- Ani DiFranco -
If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -
-- Ani DiFranco -
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
-- Anita Hill -
Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.
-- Ann Curry -
Never ever give up, even - and especially when - there's no chance of winning
-- Ann Curry
