Top 1200 Inspirational Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.

I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.

I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered and falling to pieces) became more precious to me than any Bible.

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational.

The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose.

Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.

Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as humanly possible. I think he did a fabulous job. And also I'm thrilled because the movie brings people to the book - people that wouldn't know about the book - and that's a great thing.

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

In fact, Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader.

We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country.

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.

A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK!

I write down inspirational things on cards that I keep in my bag and look at during the round.

A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey, let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you; but a book of science is inexhaustible.

I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book. We have characters that never appeared in the book. We have a lot of events that didn't quite happen the same way in the book. But there's so much in the book, stuff we've passed in the timeline that I really thought was awesome, that I really wanted to get to.

The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, truly sacrifice it. Only then may the book, the real live flawed finite book, slowly, sentence by carnal sentence, appear.

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.

I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...