Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

He who hath many friends hath none.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

In art the best is good enough.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Time is bunk.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

There’s no formula.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.