Inspiration Quotes

"Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization."

- Michael Jordan

"I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish."

- Michael Jordan

"I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more."

- Michael Jordan

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."

- Mark Twain

"Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more."

- Jack Benny

"If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents. Value what you know & start charging for it."

- Kim Garst

"If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks."

- John Bogle

"It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages."

- Henry Ford

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it!"

- Jonathan Winters

"A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them."

- Henry Kravis

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin Sharma

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art."

- Leonardo DaVinci

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people."

- A.W. Tozer

"One day, you’ll tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide."

- Brené Brown

"One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide."

- Brené Brown

"Life is a song—sing it. Life is a game—play it. Life is a challenge—meet it. Life is a dream—realise it. Life is a sacrifice—offer it. Life is love—enjoy it."

- Sai Baba

"It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read."

- George R.R. Martin

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one..."

- George R.R. Martin

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

""If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.""

- African Proverb

"I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic."

- Jürgen Klopp

"I stepped into the bookstore and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling."

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.”"

- Steven Wright

""Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty.""

- Victoria Erickson

"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies."

- Ama H. Vanniarachchy

"Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!"

- Bram Stoker