Inspirational Quotes

 

 

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

Earl Nightingale,



Leo Tolstoy: "Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."




Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs



Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Benjamin Disraeli,


 We shall not cease from exploration; and the end of all our exploration, will be to arrive where we started, only to know the place for the first time...... T.S. Eliot

 I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul......William Ernest Henley 


If only you could love enough, You could be the most powerful person in the world...Emmet Fox

 

 Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself......Leo Tolstoy 

 If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. This you have the power to revoke......Marcus Aurelius

 Stop thinking about your difficulties whatever they are and start thinking about god instead...Emmet Fox

  It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom...... Antoine De Saint-Exupery

 

 

 

 I you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.
Confucius

 All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.....Henry David Thoreau 

 For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity........Ralph Waldo Emerson

 A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does......Marcus Aurelius

 To laugh often; to win the admiration of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the respect of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to apprehend beauty; to find the best in others; to leave this world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived....that is said to have succeeded........ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of imagination makes us infinite...John Muir

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment...Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and higher in inspiration his life will be...Horace Bushnell

 First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do...
Epictetus

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right....Henry Ford

  

 If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them...Henry David Thoreau
  

 To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned...."Edward Bulwer Lytton

 If you would create something,you must be something....Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Every artist was first an amateur....Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself...W. C. Doane

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?...George Eliot

     No great man ever complains of want of opportunities....Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Men do less than they ought,unless they do all they can....Thomas Carlyle

   Let thy words be few....Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom
    Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true....Leon J. Suenes 

  The task of genius and humanity is nothing if not genius, if to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and more miraculous. To swear allegiance to nothing, but live only miraculously, think only miraculously, die miraculously....Henry Miller

  Our own heart, and not other man's opnion form our true honor....Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Keep life simple - be aware - read and listen to music....David Helfgott

 Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

 Try not to become a man of success but a man of value....Albert Einstein

    If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them....Henry David Thoreau

  To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:"Leave no stone unturned...."Edward Bulwer Lytton

   If you would create something,you must be something....Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Every artist was first an amateur....Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be....Horace Bushnell

   Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself...W. C. Doane


Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?...George Eliot

  No great man ever complains of want of opportunities....Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Men do less than they ought,unless they do all they can....Thomas Carlyle

 Men's best successes come after their disappointments...Henry Ward Beecher.

You cannot open a book without learning something...
Confucius

 The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli

             

 The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Do as you would be done by........ H.C. Mattern

 If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible...what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!........Soren Kierkegaard

 Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted...... Aesop

 Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Confucius

 Words have wings......so speak good things....... Anon

 You must be the change you wish to see in the world....... Gandhi

 Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families and nations......Paramahansa Yogananda

 The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence......Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Go placidly amid the noise & haste, & remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others...Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should...Strive to be happy.....from Desiderata Scroll

 The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard

 Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is...Elbert Hubbard

 He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers......Cameroon Proverb

 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity...... Albert Einstein

 

  

The aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly........Oscar Wilde

Nothing in this world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come......Victor Hugo

What is essential is invisible to the eye......Antoine de Saint Exupery

 

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question...... E.E. Cummings

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig......An ancient saying

When you can bring yourself to get beyond your own ego, you raise yourself to a whole new level of awareness, experience and effectiveness......Ralph Marston

 

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live........Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no instinct like that of the heart......Lord Byron

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness......Shakti Gawain

Let your soul be your pilot......Sting

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us......Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions......Oliver Wendell Holmes

Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking...... J.C. Watts

 

Things do not change; we change......Henry David Thoreau

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves......Thomas A. Edison

Experience is not what happens to a man;it is what a man does with what happens to him.....Aldous Huxley

There are two things to aim at in life; first, to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second......Logan Persall Smith

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it......Donald Curtis

If you can dream it, you can do it......Walt Disney

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?........Oscar Hammerstein II

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences......Aldous Huxley

The belief that becomes truth for me...is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action......Andre Gide

When written in chinese, the word 'crises' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity......John F. Kennedy

A Lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes......Mark Twain

You cannot solve problems with the same level of intelligence that created them.......Albert Einstein

Overcome the Angry by Non-Anger. Overcome the Wicked by Goodness. Overcome the Miser by Generosity. Overcome the Liar by Truth......The Budda

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still......Lao-Tzu

The softest thing in the Universe overcomes the hardest thing in the Universe. In the World there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it......Lao-Tzu

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance......Bruce Barton

Mistrust all in whom the desire to punish is imperative...... Goethe

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday ... and the other is tomorrow!.......John Bunyan

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself........Franklin Delano Roosevelt

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so........Hamlet - Act II, Sc. 2

Every day, in every way, things are getting better and better......Emile Coue