Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Bob Dylan Quotes

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Acceptance Growth Learning Mistake Understanding A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Duality I think I have a dualistic nature.

Inspiration Opportunity Proactiveness Scarcity Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Commonality Equality Mortality All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Arbitrariness Divine Nature God You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Convenience Conviction Integrity Regret People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Communication Expression Inspiration Knowledge Society In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Belonging Nature Solitude Wilderness The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Discernment Simplicity Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

Ambition Purpose Sacrifice Self-Discovery Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Acceptance Change Hope Reflection Time Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Culture Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Authenticity Experience Live Performance Music Quality My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Decay Dream Nature Unnatural I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Defiance Loyalty Power Dynamics Resilience In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Experience Knowledge Learning Personal Growth Wisdom You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Self-Image I can't stand to see myself on television.

Freedom Limitation Reality No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Creativity Expression Idea Journey Movement A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Passage Perspective Time Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Complexity Contradiction Deception Truth Unity All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Contentment Fulfillment Happiness Meaning Purpose You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

College Life Humor Mortality Sarcasm Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Pragmatism Self-Control Self Preservation I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Change Constancy There is nothing so stable as change.

Humility Identity Poetry I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Change Emotion Sensitivity I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Humility Vulnerability But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Corruption Money Power Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Acceptance Authenticity Individuality Perception I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.