Inspirational Quotations

No matter how much it has done for your mind,
your education has been a failure if it has failed to open your heart.
— Francis de Sales

What we all tend to complain about most in other people
are those things we don’t like about ourselves.
— William Wharton

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
— Muriel Strode

Love is not a feeling, it is a decision—to do the very best we can for the other person.
— Unknown

No man…can be a genius;
but all men have a genius,
to be served or disobeyed at their own peril.
— Ananda Coomaraswamy

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has
power to move you, if the simple things of nature have
a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive…
— Eleonora Duse

May there always be a smile on your face and laughter in your heart.
— Unknown

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
— John Fletcher

The aim of life is to live,
and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
— Henry Miller

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts
and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
— James Lane Allen

Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows.
—Jennifer Yane

It’s when you run away that you’re most liable to stumble.
—Casey Robinson (American Film Producer)

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
—German Proverb

Pain is only weakness leaving your body, so don’t give up because it hurts keep going cause it makes you stonger.
—Unknown

Some people make the day brighter just by being in it.
—Mary Dawson Hughes

In every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
—John Ruskin (English Art Critic)

If your dog plays checkers with you, don’t criticize his game, just be glad he plays the game at all.
—Unknown

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
—John Wooden (American Sportsperson)

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
—Gore Vidal (American Novelist)

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
—Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter)

Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
—William James (American Philosopher)

There is no use going back looking for the lost opportunity; someone else has found it.
—Anonymous

One of things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
—Dick Gregory

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
—Joel Hawes

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
—Unknown

The character and qualifications of the leader are reflected in the men he selects, develops and gathers around him. Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader. Therefore, to have loyal, efficient employees-be a loyal and efficient employer.
—Arthur W. Newcomb

Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour’s calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)

To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
—Tony Dorsett

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
—Thomas Jefferson (American Head of State)

Quite often we change jobs, friends and spouses instead of ourselves.
—Akbarali H. Jetha (Indian Author)

We cannot do everything, but we must do everything we can.
—Glenn L. Pace

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them, either. They keep you.
—Frank Hall Crane

It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic, you can always cry later.
—Lucimar Santos de Lima

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
—Unknown

It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible only in one way.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

After all is said and done, more is said than done.
—U.S. Proverb

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
—Robert Montgomery

If you don’t have a test, you won’t have a testimony.
—Unknown

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei (Italian Astronomer)

Make changes with SNAPS|S-Specify the situation|N-Name your feelings|A-Ask for what you want to happen|P-Pay off – will be either positive or negative|S-So go for the positive result.
—Unknown

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (Indian Philosopher)

Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (American Author, Aviator)

Never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

If you don’t change direction, you’ll end up where you’re going.
—Unknown

If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t got nothin’.
—Billie Holiday

Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having.
—Unknown

Live today to the fullest. Remember it’s the first day of the rest of your life.
—Unknown

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

To have a friend, be a friend.
—Common Proverb

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
—William Cowper (English Anglican Poet)

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

In our lives we each act, evaluate, correct, then act again.
—Unknown

It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
—Rob Gilbert

The battery in a car works only because it has a positive and a negative. As parents we also must have the same balance and be kind and loving, but also tough when it is necessary.
—Unknown

That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Novelist)

To change family life -|Husbands love your wives,|Wives respect your husbands,|Children obey your parents.
—Unknown

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
—Huey P. Newton

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
—Bessie Anderson Stanley (American Poet)

Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We’re looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.
—Unknown

How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
—Gerald Jampolsky

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you’ll never cease to grow.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
—Anonymous

Life is only a combination of different experiences. Demand to enjoy them all.
—Unknown

It’s only the view from where you sit that makes you fear defeat, but life is full of many aisles, so why don’t you change your seat?
—Unknown

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
—Petrarch (Italian Scholar)

Wear a smile – one size fits all
—Anonymous

Don’t re-anything. Don’t re-do, re-peat, re-cover, re-finance – do it right the first time.
—Unknown

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside all patterns.
—Bruce Lee (Hong-Kong-born American Sportsperson)

You never realize how much you love something till its gone.
—Unknown

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
—William Bernbach

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
—Shunryu Suzuki

Anyone can give up–it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when the rest of the world would understand if you fell apart… that’s true strength.
—Anonymous

Wear a smile—one size fits all.
—Anonymous

It’s no longer enough to be a ‘change agent.’ You must be a change insurgent—provoking, prodding, warning everyone in sight that complacency is death.
—Robert Reich

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Carl Jung (Swiss Psychologist)

The splendid discontent of God|With chaos, made the world…|And from the discontent of man|The world’s best progress springs.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox (American Poet)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

A closed mind is like a closed book, just a block of wood.
—Chinese Proverb

Only we can choose how great of an impact our actions have on others,|So choose something that does not discourage, but rather inspires.
—Unknown

A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand and a machine is but a complex tool; and he that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)

Don’t stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.
—Thomas Chandler Haliburton (Canadian Author)

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

We can’t live our life over again, but we can really live up to our potential from this moment on.
—Unknown

Faith will take us to the destination God wants us to get to. We have a destiny.
—Unknown

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

No one ever collapsed under the burdens of a single day. It is when the burdens of tomorrow are added to it that it becomes unbearable. Live one day at a time—it’s all that we have that is a certainty anyway.
—Unknown

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
—Paramahansa Yogananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock.
—Woody Allen (American Actor)

Life is too short to waste time blaming someone|else for your failures. No one can make you fail.|Life is never too short to take time to thank someone|else for helping you succeed. Anyone can help you succeed.
—Unknown

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Unknown

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)