Inspirational Quotes - Page 581

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

Many can argue - not many converse.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

God always takes the simplest way.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.