Honesty Quotes .

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
-- Hugh Prather

Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
-- Joseph Sugarman

 

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
-- L. Ron Hubbard


Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
-- Brian Tracey


Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Mahatma Gandhi


Honest hearts produce honest actions.
-- Brigham Young


Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.   
-- Thomas Jefferson


I am a big believer in the 'mirror test.' All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
-- John McKay


I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
-- Lee Iacocca

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
-- Mary MacCracken

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.
-- Paulo Coelho

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-- Walter Anderson

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
-- Richard J. Needham

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
-- Oliver Wendell

Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there.
-- Chinese Proverbs

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
-- James Allen

The truth needs so little rehearsal.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
-- Robert Brault

Truth fears no questions.
-- Author Unknown

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
-- Vince Poscente

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When in doubt, tell the truth.
-- Mark Twain

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
-- Pamela Ribon

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
-- Bill Copeland

Heart Quotes.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
-- Octavio Paz

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
-- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
-- Mother Teresa

 

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-- Washington Irving

A person's world is only as big as their heart.
-- Tanya A. Moore

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
-- Carlos Castaneda

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
-- Aristotle

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
-- Mevlana Rumi

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
-- Shigenori Kameoka

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.
-- Author Unknown

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
-- William Shakespeare

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
-- James Allen

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.
-- Robert Tizon

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
-- Marc Chagall

If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old.
-- James A. Garfield

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
-- Marilyn vos Savant

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
-- Author Unknown

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
-- Author Unknown

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
-- Author Unknown

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
-- James Earl Jones

Only do what your heart tells you.
-- Princess Diana

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-- Paulo Coelho

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-- Helen Keller

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.
-- Author Unknown

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
-- Jacques Benigne Bossuel

The heart is forever making the head its fool.
-- François de la Rochefoucauld

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
-- Robert Valett

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
-- Deepak Chopra

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.
-- Michael Nolan

What is uttered from the heart alone,
Will win the hearts of others to your own.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
-- Tori Amos

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
-- Confucius

Habit Quotes.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
-- Frank A. Clark

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.
-- Latin Proverb

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
-- Proverb

 

Character is long-standing habit.
-- Plutarch

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
-- Shaquille O'Neal

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
-- Charles C. Noble

Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits.
-- Robert Puller

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
-- Mark Twain

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
-- Nathaniel Emmons

Habit is stronger than reason.
-- George Santayana

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
-- Jim Rohn

Nothing is stronger than habit.
-- Ovid

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
-- Stephen Covey

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
-- Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle

When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.
-- James Allen

Giving Quotes.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
-- Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
 

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
-- Author Unknown

 

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
-- Maya Angelou
 

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
-- Flora Edwards
 

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
-- Mother Teresa
 

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
-- Robert A. Heinlein 
 

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
-- Frank A. Clark 
 

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
-- Albert Camus 
 

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
-- Elbert Hubbard 
 

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
-- Benjamin Franklin 
 

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and serve."
-- Sir Wilfred T. Grinfell 
 

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
-- Albert Einstein 
 

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
-- Lao Tzu 
 

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
-- Nathaniel Branden 
 

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. 

-- Peyton Conway March
 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill
 

Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever.
-- Dr. Wil Rose 
 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith Quotes.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
-- Emmanuel Teney

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
-- Mother Teresa

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
-- Andre Gide

 

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
-- William W. Watt

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith is a passionate intuition.
-- William Wordsworth

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about "where" we shall land, but rather on the belief that we "shall" land.
-- Carter Heyward

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
-- David S. Muzzey

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
-- Author Unknown

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regardless of the consequences.
-- Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.
-- Sherwood Eddy

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
-- Helen Keller

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-- Saint Augustine

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
-- C.S. Lewis

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
-- Robert Collyer

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
-- William James

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
-- Dan Millman

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
-- Philip Gulley

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
-- Elbert Hubbard

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
-- B.C. Forbes

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
-- George E Woodberry

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
-- William Hazlitt

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-- Gail Devers

Living without faith is like driving in a fog.
-- Proverb

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
-- Buddha

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
-- Erich Fromm

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-- Helen Keller

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-- Oscar Wilde

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
-- Ellen G White

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
-- Ralph Marston

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught how to fly.
-- Patrick Overton

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
-- Zig Ziglar

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
-- St Francis of Assisi

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Dream Quotes to Keep Your Dreams Alive

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
-- Denis Waitley

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-- Napoleon Hill

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
-- Zadok Rabinwitz

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

 

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
-- Joseph Epstein

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
-- Lao Tzu

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!
-- Og Mandino

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
-- Author Unknown

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
-- Astrid Alauda

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
-- Dale E. Turner

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
-- Harriet Tubman

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
-- Vincent van Gogh

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
-- Jim Valvano

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
-- Jack London

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
-- Flavia Weedn

If the dream is big enough the facts don't matter.
-- Dexter Yager

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
-- Richard M. DeVos

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
-- Joyce Chapman

Life is never easy for those who dream.
-- Robert James Waller

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
-- Karen Ravn

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
-- Author Unknown

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-- Pamela Vaull Starr

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
-- E. Y. Harburg

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own... for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!
-- Linda Staten

Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.
-- James Allen

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-- Mark Twain

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.-- Bernard Edmonds

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...
-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
-- Woodrow Wilson

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
-- Richard Bach

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-- C.S. Lewis

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
-- Diana Ross

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-- Abdul Kalam
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
-- Billy Wilder

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
-- George Bernard Shaw

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows/ and has always known/ that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
-- Anthony Robbins

Creativity Quotes.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
-- Frank Capra

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso

Another word for creativity is courage.
-- George Prince

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
-- Alan Alda

 

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
-- Rita Mae Brown

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
-- Edward de Bono

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
-- Arthur Koestler

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
-- Mary Lou Cook

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.
-- Thomas Disch

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
-- William Plomer

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
-- Julia Cameron

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
-- Mae Jemison

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
-- Ray Bradbury

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
-- Bo Bennett

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
-- Louise Nevelson

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
-- Barthold Georg Niebuhr

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.
-- Gordon Mackenzie

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-- A. A. Milne

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.
-- Joseph Badaracco

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
-- Tina Turner

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.
-- George J. Seidel

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
-- Carl Jung

The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.
-- Abe Tannenbaum

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
-- Dee Hock

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
-- Henry David Thoreau

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
-- Warren G. Bennis

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
-- Tori Amos

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
-- R. I. Fitzhenry

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Fuller

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!
-- Peter McWilliams
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.-- Madeleine L'Engle

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
-- Albert Einstein

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
-- Nietzsche