Inspirational Quotes

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
John Quincy Adams

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Danny Kaye

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commager

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Christy Borgeld

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul

Dreams are necessary to life.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination
Carl Rogers

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
Val Kilmer

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
Dolly Parton

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes

One man with courage makes a majority.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.
Jennifer Aniston

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Walton

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
James Allen

Aim for the highest.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Julie Andrews

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.