Inspirational Quotes

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

Hope is a waking dream.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Ideas shape the course of history.

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