Inspirational Quotes

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but to inspire them?

When I first heard [Elvis Presley's] voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody; and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.

If the measure of greatness is to gladden the heart of every human being on the face of the earth, then he truly was the greatest. In every way he was the bravest, the kindest and the most excellent of men.

The only question is whether you're going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you're going to do it tomorrow, you'll never do it. You have to get on it today.

I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

If you stay in your heart you will always be inspired and if you are inspired you will always be enthusiastic.

Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

If your Eyes are Positive, You will Love the World.But if Your Tongue is Positive, The World will Love you.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present, God has given me no control over the moment following.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

My life is my message.

Create and stir other people to create.