“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
Inspiration is personal — what lights a fire in one person barely registers with another. This collection casts a wide net, gathering words that have moved people to action, to tears, to changed minds, and occasionally to changed lives.
“One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.”
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”
“Our ideals are our better selves.”
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.”
“The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.”
“A place for everything, everything in its place.”
“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”