Random Inspirational Quotes

"I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results."

"She’s twelve hours in the future, and exactly half a world away. No matter how hard I try, I will always be a part of her past."

"The good, the bad, and the ugly basically sums up my sex life. Except that I’ve never had the good."

"Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment."

"Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness."

"What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that Iwasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal waswhat I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, butalso by, as I once believed, a true friend."

"A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful."

"The atheist has no hope."

"But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right."

"Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE."

"A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length."

"[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."

"I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams."

"I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races."

"To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding."

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important."Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."

"O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude..."

"It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane."