Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin DisraeliBeing a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will RogersI need drama in my life to keep making music.
EminemI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily DickinsonWhen you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor RooseveltI’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
Ray BradburyWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan PoeNurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin DisraeliFew things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark TwainNext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin LutherOne of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.
Brian EnoI learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest HemingwayYou cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Stephen KingOne of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
Maya AngelouAmbition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund BurkeI use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.
Mr. TWhat is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mahatma GandhiI’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.
Karl LagerfeldI want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
J. ColeSearching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
David BowieWithout this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl JungThe hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
Maya AngelouThe more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van GoghAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawBegin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
Wayne DyerEvery man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.
Conor McGregorI believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Bill GatesArt’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank OceanSomeone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren BuffettSnoop ain’t never cosigned me, but I know everybody is like, ‚That’s the next Snoop.‘ Nah, I’m Nipsey, and I got to work to define myself.
Nipsey HussleI have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.
Mr. THistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleInnovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
Joe BidenI hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.
Michelle ObamaThat is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.
Michelle ObamaMy songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.
Dolly PartonWhatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. RowlingAt times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert SchweitzerActions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
Harry S. TrumanLife is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald ReaganIf your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonAlthough the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
Michelle ObamaPractically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho MarxThere are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. WashingtonWhen you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.
Lady GagaHe ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily DickinsonFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
VoltaireTo love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
Samuel JohnsonTo those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
George W. BushThomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald ReaganSuccess is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily DickinsonI decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
SocratesHeroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.
Ronald ReaganThe best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren BuffettIf you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon HillFires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James BaldwinI have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck