Inspirational Speakers Quotes & Sayings

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection. — Lewis Thomas

A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between being a good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue. — Thea Devine

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences. — John Paul Warren

The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces. — John Paul Warren

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack. — John Le Carre

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort ... seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH. — John Paul Warren

There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street. — John Paul Warren

The real duty of a motivational speaker and an inspirational writer must be to inspire lives to live and leave distinctive footprints which shall qualify such lives to eternal eternity in the Kingdom of God notwithstanding how minute or great the footprints might be — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker. — Will Rogers

Humor plays a key role in the playbooks of the world's most inspiring public speakers. — Carmine Gallo

The most serious will miss heaven, the unserious rebel will repent in the last hour. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I will not be my father's dog. — Neil Gaiman

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing. — Marjorie M. Liu

All great speakers were bad speakers at first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable. — John Paul Warren

Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living. — Dan B. Allender

I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born.
'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Living life ONCE is enough ... if you live life RIGHT. — John Paul Warren

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON. — John Paul Warren

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy. — Ray Bradbury

Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed. — John Paul Warren

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period. — Charlie Trotter

It was no waste of time. You learned. You grew. You'll do better next time. — Toni Sorenson

You'll win her with ya Irish charm and green eyes, so ya will. Now drink up ya coffee and stop whining like a baby. This girl's gonna have a fantastic night tomorrow. She's gonna worship da ground ya c**k drags on. — JoAnne Kenrick