Enspiriting Quotes & Sayings

Remember, the way we perceive ourselves is often nothing like what we really are," he said. — R.K. Ryals

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation. — Barack Obama

The quotes were good, if overpolished. I find this common, and in direct proportion to the amount of TV a subject watches. Not long ago, I interviewed a woman whose twenty-two-year-old daughter had just been murdered by her boyfriend, and she gave me a line straight from a legal drama I happened to catch the night before: I'd like to say that I pity him, but now I fear I'll never be able to pity again. — Gillian Flynn

In the end, the details weren't about beauty or status. They never had been, for me. They were about feeling at home in the world. And Joan hated these details. She thought my existence relentlessly tedious. What she couldn't see was that the details were life. That was how you loved someone: every day, without fail, over and over. — Anton DiSclafani

I went to the surplus store on Santa Monica and Vine (in Los Angeles) and went and got me a Navy outfit, put the black tape under my eyes. I got me a whistle and went in there with a hat looking like a full-on drill sergeant. — Tyrese Gibson

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri

We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress. — Jane McGonigal

When they were things he was afraid to do, he made himself do them. When they were abstract ideas, he told himself not to dwell on what wasn't rational and what was out of his control. — Mara Wilson

few things of worth are ever simple. Or easy.' Tomas — Raymond E. Feist

We must look at ourselves with the strictest eyes. — Tsutomu Ohshima

Love gives life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us. — E. O. Wilson

Dionysus invented wine, which so impressed his father Zeus that he promoted Dionysus to god. The guy who invented prune juice, by contrast, got sentenced to the Fields of Punishment. — Rick Riordan

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in. — Barnabe Rich

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. — Julia Stiles

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. — Flora Lewis