Inspirational Quotations

To me business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
—Richard Branson (British Entrepreneur)

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.
—Lowell Thomas (American Writer)

Some pursue happiness – others create it.
—Anonymous

Don’t tell me I’m burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax.
—Unknown

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
—Unknown

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
—Unknown

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
—Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor?
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

When you go forward, you will occasionally stumble. And when you choose to positively recover from those stumbles, you’ll move more quickly ahead.
—Ralph Marston

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.
—Mia Farrow

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;|A spark of that immortal fire|With angels shared, by Allah given|To lift from earth our low desire.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (English Romantic Poet)

If you don’t have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
—Alfred A. Montapert

Anybody who can still do at 60 what he was doing at 20, wasn’t doing much at 20.
—Unknown

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

Meditation is in truth higher than thought. The earth seems to rest in silent meditation; and the waters and the mountains and the sky and the heavens seem all to be in meditation. Whenever a man attains greatness on this earth, he has his reward according to his meditation.
—The Upanishads

Often what we choose for our lives is the choice for the next generation too.
—Unknown

The display of status symbols is usually a result of low self-esteem. The self-confident person can afford to project a modest image.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (American Author)

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
—Thomas Jefferson (American Head of State)

Marriage is an empty box. It remains empty unless you put in more than you take out.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (American Author)

Laughter has no foreign accent.
—Paul B. Lowney

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader)

All of us have been rejected more than once. We’ve been turned down for jobs, had applications refused, and lost out in romance.
—James R. Sherman

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
—James Cook (British Explorer)

We can choose what we do but we cannot choose the consequences of what we do.
—Richard G. Scott (American Mormon Religious Leader)

No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end.
—Dan Zadra

It is probably a sound definition of character to say that it is habitual self-mastery toward good ends…. Character is a subtle thing. Its sources are obscure, its roots delicate and invisible. We know it when we see it and it always commands our admiration, and the absence of it our pity; but it is largely a matter of will.
—Leo J. Muir

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.
—Reshad Feild

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
—Audrey Hepburn (Belgian-born British Actor)

The winds of grace are blowing all the time. You have only to raise your sail.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

For there we loved, and where we love is home,|Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician)

The role of the director is to create a space where the actor or actress can become more than they’ve ever been before, more than they’ve dreamed of being.
—Robert Altman

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
—Jonas Salk (American Biologist)

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)

For myself, I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
—Buckminster Fuller (American Inventor, Philosopher)

Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
—Unknown

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
—Unknown

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
—Richard Bach (American Novelist)

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
—Ruth Ross

You can complain that roses have thorns; or rejoice that thorns have roses.
—Ziggy

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
—Richard Bach (American Novelist)

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
—Willa Cather (American Novelist)

The real worth of man is not in himself alone, but what he stands for.
—Sterling W. Sill (American Mormon Religious Leader)

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, “I shall to-day be uppermost.”
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

You don’t have to know what to do. You have to do what you know.
—Unknown

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
—William James (American Philosopher)

A ship at harbor is safe, but that’s not what the ship was built for.
—Unknown

The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.
—Chilon of Sparta

^TODAY^|Yesterday is gone.|Tomorrow has not yet come.|We have only today. Let us begin.
—Mother Teresa (Albanian Catholic Humanitarian)

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.
—Unknown

Patience in the present,
faith in the future,
and joy in the doing.
—Unknown

Live every day as if it is your last—and one day you’ll be right.
—Unknown

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
—John Augustus Shedd

A list of man’s enemies is often a truer guide to his character than a list of his friends.
—Unknown

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
—John Naisbitt

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
—Claude Pepper

Live more simply, so that you can find time to enjoy the little pleasures of life.
—Unknown

As the sun that beholds the world is untouched by earthly impurities, so the Spirit that is in all things is untouched by external sufferings.
—The Upanishads

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
—Bernie Siegel

Life brings tears, smiles, and memories: the tears dry, the smile fades, but the memories live on forever.
—Anonymous

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
—Peter Medawar

Forgiveness is a virtue of the learned. To err is human, to forgive divine.
—Subhashita Manjari

If you place a low value on yourself, you can be sure the world will not overprice you.
—Unknown

Paradise is always where love dwells.
—Jean Paul (German Novelist)

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.
—Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Mothers are not paid for their work because it is priceless.
—Unknown

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

Triumph is the extra umph added to the try.
—Unknown

Happiness, to me, lies in stretching, to the farthest boundaries of which we are capable, the resources of the mind and heart.
—Leo Rosten (Russian-born American Humorist)

Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Learn new skills to achieve your goals in life.
—Unknown

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
—Thomas Aquinas (Italian Catholic Priest)

What is ours to do comes so easily, because from the very beginning it has always been there.
—Michael Jones

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
—Unknown

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
—Arthur Brisbane (American Journalist)

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
—Thomas N. Carruthers

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
—Maria Mitchell

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Vidal Sassoon

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

Life is a long lesson in humility.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Philosopher)

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
—Henry Van Dyke

Man succeeds because he believes he can, or he fails because he thinks he will.
—Unknown

It is easy for others to put you down when they are simply agreeing with you.
—Unknown

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
—Rebecca West (English Author)

We shall not cease from exploration|And the end of all our exploring|Will be to arrive where we started|And know the place for the first time.
—T. S. Eliot (American-born British Poet)

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Here, you have the remote. We’re lost. Let’s stop and ask for directions. Why don’t we go and see a romantic film for a change. No, let me take out the rubbish. I’ll just separate the white clothes from the coloured ones. Isn’t it my turn to change the baby? I’ll turn off the rugby so we can talk.
—Unknown

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
—James F. Byrnes (American Elected Representative)

Life is like a book. You can’t look at the beginning and the end and know what it’s all about. You have to live it all the way through.
—Unknown