I answer only to God.
Mr. TIf you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Ray BradburyYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaThere’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.
Steven WrightIn the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.
The WeekndThe way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.
Kendrick LamarLeadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.
Jocko WillinkLife opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim CarreyWalk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John RuskinI’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.
Joel OsteenGod reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David ThoreauIn the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Carl JungPut two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillOh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!
Angelina JolieFree will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
Charles SpurgeonWe begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon HillWhoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey NewtonI cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.
Alice WalkerThe best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.
Sunil ChhetriNone of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
Lady GagaWe construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.
Paul AusterEverything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe BryantMy life is my message.
Mahatma GandhiI imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.
Angelina JolieWhen you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.
David GogginsOf course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.
Clint EastwoodHow many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco ChanelRelish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.
Anthony HopkinsThere is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo CoelhoI never fall in love.
Karl LagerfeldI will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
ConfuciusAlways say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart TolleI put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.
Kevin GatesWhen Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
Madeleine AlbrightShow me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
Robert Baden-PowellAgainst my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand RussellI am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
Marilyn MonroeThe most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.
Paul AusterSingle life is so overrated.
RihannaLeaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.
John C. MaxwellI think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice WalkerThe power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao TzuWhen you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘
Dalai LamaUntil the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard ShawIn a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne DyerPeople ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore RooseveltIf you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.
Joel OsteenIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauHe who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
AristotleJust try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?
Michelle ObamaI am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!
Joyce MeyerI write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy WinehouseI have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.
Kevin GatesThe fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina JolieCustom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund BurkeThe President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
Herbert HooverInstead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.
Joyce Meyer