Motivational Quotes

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams

Think not about your frustrations,

but about your unfulfilled potential.

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,

but with what it is still possible for you to do

Pope John XXIII

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The value of a man should be seen in

what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r',

except at the beginning of a word.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

The goal of my shows,

my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it,

whatever ventures I might pursue,

would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far

more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.

A more secret, sweet,

and overpowering beauty appears to man

when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

You've got to be a bit of a pirate in this world.

Forgiveness is a funny thing.

It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Films are not written,

they’re realized through collaboration and imagination.

The purpose of opening the mind,

as of opening the mouth,

is to shut it again on something solid.

You learn from mistakes,

but you don’t repeat them.

Dream and strive,

for nothing great is achieved without vision and effort.

Dream,

dream,

dream.

Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;

this is not done by jostling in the street.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Keep your eyes on the stars,

and your feet on the ground

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.

They have clung to me all my life.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy:

am I or are the others crazy?