"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."
Read quote
66 likes
Inspiring quotes
Inspiring
3.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Inspiring
Browse quotes that often appear alongside inspiring — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Inspiring quotes (page 16 of 157)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
Read quote
66 likes
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."
Read quote
66 likes
"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself."
Read quote
66 likes
"To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks."
Read quote
65 likes
"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale."
Read quote
65 likes
"People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
Read quote
65 likes
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
Read quote
65 likes
"You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream."
Read quote
65 likes
"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
Read quote
65 likes
"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."
Read quote
65 likes
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere."
Read quote
64 likes
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
Read quote
64 likes
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
Read quote
64 likes
"Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure."
Read quote
64 likes
"When I discover who I am, I'll be free."
Read quote
64 likes
"We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty."
Read quote
63 likes
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
Read quote
62 likes
"Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim."
Read quote
62 likes
"The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others."
Read quote
62 likes