5,550 Quotes About Inspiring

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.