Inspiring Quotations | Page 3

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

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.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

I think Dogme was inspiring for quite a few peoples and sort of started a digital movement. Personally, I found it extremely uplifting and fantastic making Dogme movies, but I felt I completed it with 'The Celebration.' I think that was the end of the road on Dogme for me. It was as far as I could go.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

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.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.

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.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.