Image of Freddie Mercury
I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
- Freddie Mercury
Collection: Song
Image of Steve Jobs
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Business
Image of Yasmin Mogahed
Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
- Yasmin Mogahed
Collection: Giving
Image of Walter Matthau
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more.
- Walter Matthau
Collection: Hilarious
Image of Thomas Aquinas
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
- Thomas Aquinas
Collection: Powerful
Image of S. Truett Cathy
The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.
- S. Truett Cathy
Collection: Differences
Image of Milton Friedman
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Wind
Image of Anais Nin
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
- Anais Nin
Collection: Writing
Image of Horace Mann
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
- Horace Mann
Image of Warren Buffett
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
- Warren Buffett
Collection: Running
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Education
Image of Thomas Carlyle
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
- Thomas Carlyle
Collection: Diversity
Image of Dr. Seuss
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
- Dr. Seuss
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Immanuel Kant
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
- Immanuel Kant
Collection: Law
Image of Jack Ma
We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.
- Jack Ma
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Success
Image of Aesop
Pride goes before destruction.
- Aesop
Collection: Pride
Image of Laozi
Simple, like uncarved wood.
- Laozi
Collection: Simple
Image of Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Time
Image of Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Men
Image of Bruce Lee
It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.
- Bruce Lee
Collection: Broken
Image of Leo Tolstoy
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: Sacrifice
Image of Albert Einstein
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Dance
Image of Eric Thomas
When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
- Eric Thomas
Collection: Inspirational Entrepreneurship
Image of Stanley Kubrick
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
- Stanley Kubrick
Collection: Book
Image of Josh Hutcherson
Everybody has their own problems. No matter how big you think yours are, there is someone else that has bigger problems or different problems.
- Josh Hutcherson
Collection: Thinking
Image of Terrence Malick
Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
- Terrence Malick
Collection: Light
Image of H. G. Wells
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
- H. G. Wells
Image of Pierre Omidyar
It is not really work if you are having fun.
- Pierre Omidyar
Collection: Fun
Image of James Freeman Clarke
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke
Image of Walter Russell
The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources.
- Walter Russell
Collection: Mean
Image of Haile Selassie
Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
- Haile Selassie
Collection: Doubt
Image of Eckhart Tolle
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Lance Armstrong
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
- Lance Armstrong
Collection: Running
Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Collection: Love
Image of Dwight D. Eisenhower
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Image of Jackie DeShannon
Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.
- Jackie DeShannon
Collection: Peace
Image of Milton H. Erickson
Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
- Milton H. Erickson
Collection: Change
Image of Leonard Cohen
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.
- Leonard Cohen
Collection: War
Image of Oprah Winfrey
There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.
- Oprah Winfrey
Collection: Imagination
Image of George Michael
It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?
- George Michael
Collection: Broken Heart
Image of Joe Rogan
Choose To Be Inspired.
- Joe Rogan
Collection: Mma
Image of Roald Dahl
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
- Roald Dahl
Collection: Book
Image of Marcus Aurelius
Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
- Marcus Aurelius
Collection: Meditation
Image of Pablo Neruda
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
- Pablo Neruda
Collection: Love
Image of John D. Rockefeller
I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Christian
Image of George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- George Eliot
Image of Andrew Carnegie
Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.
- Andrew Carnegie
Collection: Moving
Image of Arthur C. Clarke
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
- Arthur C. Clarke