Jimmy Buffett Quotes

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

Jimmy Buffett

• May
• Trust
• Inspiration
• Forget
• Ambition
• Intuition

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Inspiration
  • Thing

• I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams
  • Who

• I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Cool
  • Trust

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Your

• If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Trust

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • May
  • Beauty
  • See

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • May
  • Think

• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

• I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Single
  • Forget
  • Three

• Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • War
  • Peace

• Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Children
  • Family
  • Father

• I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

  

  Kim Young-sam
  • Freedom
  • Side
  • Korean

• We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • May
  • Trust
  • Inspiration