We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.
You make a choice when you decide how you will react to any given situation. If you’re choosing to complain and think negatively, your natural reaction will be to dwell on the negatives of every situation.
How did I happen to become an explorer? It did not just happen, for my career has been a steady progress toward a definite goal since I was fifteen years of age.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.”
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
Good men do the most harm
“To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration”
Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.