Inspirational Quotes - Page 584

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

Life's a roller coaster, and you never know when it's going to take a turn.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

If you can't, then you must!

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

What gets measured gets done.

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.

Beauty is only skin deep.

If you have love you will do all things well.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.