Random Inspirational Quotes

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

"I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples."

"What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?"

"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

"You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become."

"You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."

"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."

"Darling it may be a long time before we see one another again. But I want you to know. Every time I’ve said I love you- I meant it. There’s no two ways about it. The crew was talking about what’s ahead of us, but we all agreed on one thing. We’re coming back."

"When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky."

"The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

"Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence."

"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."

"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."

"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."

"Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty."

"At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure."

"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."

"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."