Inspirational Quotes

It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

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

Live with Passion.
- Anthony Robbins

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e.e. cummings

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
- Roberto Benigni,

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Benjamin Disraeli,

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain,

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- Saint Jerome,

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work. - Oprah Winfrey,

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle,

You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert Heinlein,

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
John Keats

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. Adams

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. –
George Bernard Shaw

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
- Lawrence Sterne

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- James A. Froude

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift
. - Homer

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
- Michael J. Fox

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained
. - James A. Garfield

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
- Saadi,

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.
' - Andre Gide

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin


People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
- Jane Addams


The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Matthew Arnold

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
- Pythagoras

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
- John Witherspoon

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Elizabeth I

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas H. Huxley

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.
- Earl Warren

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


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

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
- Paul Klee

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
- Sydney Smith

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
- Tryon Edwards

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- Eric Hoffer

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
- Leigh Hunt

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
- Herodotus

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Katherine Mansfield

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Kahlil Gibran

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
- John Stuart Mill

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
- Charlie Chaplin

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- Saint Francis de Sales

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
- Daniel H. Burnham

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- Franz Kafka

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
- John Hay

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- Andre Gide

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
- George Sand

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
- Lord Byron,

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
- Norman Thomas

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. - John Tillotson,

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
- Charles F. Kettering

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell


The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- Cecil B. DeMille

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Christopher Morley

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
- Ben Jonson,

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
Don’t be afraid to take one large step because you can’t cross a chasm in two small leaps.
Lloyd George

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
Author Unknown

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
– Linus Pauling,

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. – Andrew Carnegie, and Philanthropist

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. – Elizabeth Arden,
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
– Joe Paterno,

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
– Karl A. Menninger,

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently.
– Agnes De Mille,

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
– Sacha Guitry,

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
– Napoleon Bonaparte,

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
– Roger Ebert

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid
. – Lady Bird Johnson, Former First Lady of the United States


I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
– Albert Einstein,

When all else is lost, the future still remains.
– Christian Nevell Bovee

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery
. – Joyce Brothers

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
– Source Unknown

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
– Napoleon Hill,

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
– Josh Billings,

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
– Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open
. – Rose Wilder Lane,

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
– Ambrose Bierce,

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
– Henry Ford

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
– Leonardo da Vinci,

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
– Erma Bombeck,

Talent is only the starting point.
– Irving Berlin,

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority. – Vince Lombardi
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
– Jim Rohn,

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
– Barbara Bush,

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
– Freya Stark,

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
– Mignon McLaughlin,

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
– Confucius

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter F. Drucker,

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
– Josh Billings

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
– Hubert H. Humphrey

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
– Stephen R. Covey

Presence is more than just being there.
– Malcolm S. Forbes

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
– Lee Iacocca

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
– George Halas,

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
– Leonardo da Vinci,

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade
. – Tom Peters,

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
– Winston Churchill,

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
– Douglas MacArthur

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. – George Santayana
When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
– Mark Twain,

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
– Theodore Roosevelt

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
– Henry David Thoreau,

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
– Lyndon B. Johnson

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
– Joyce Brothers

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
– Woody Allen,

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
– Vince Lombardi,

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. – Josh Billings
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
– Chinese Proverb

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
– Emily Dickinson

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
– Amelia Earhart

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
– David Hume

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
– Source Unknown

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
– Immanuel Kant

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
– Mary Pickford

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
– Eric Hoffer

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
– Thomas Jefferson,

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
– Norman Vincent Peale

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
– Dale Carnegie

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
– George Santayana

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
– Marcel Proust

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
– G. K. Chesterton

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
– Oscar

WildeThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
– B. F. Skinner,

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
– Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
– Auguste Rodin


Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
– Thomas Edison
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

Ideas shape the course of history.
– John Maynard Keynes,

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
– Albanian Proverb

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson,

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost,
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New habits make new horizons.
Grenville Kleiser

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Benjamin Franklin

It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa,dtrkbhj,

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Don’t waste time calculating your chances of success and failure. Just fix your aim and begin.
Guan Yin Tzu

To change one’s life;Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
William James

Know thy work and do it, and work at it like a Hercules. One monster there is in the world—an idle man.
Carlyle

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann von Goethe

Don’t wait for your “ship to come in,” and feel angry and cheated when it doesn’t. Get going with something small
Irene Kassorla

Do noble things, not dream they all along
Charles Kingsley

Nobody ever drowned in sweat
US Marine saying

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Shira Tehrani

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller


Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Author Unknown

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
Chinese Proverbs

Talk doesn’t cook rice.
Chinese Proverb

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian Tracy
If you don’t like where you are, then change it! You’re not a tree.
Jim Rohn

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these,
'It might have been'.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
- Kahlil Gibran

You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Irish Proverb
Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
- Elie Wiesel
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
- Anonymous

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
- Chinese Proverb

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

Every hand does its part to hold up the world
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
- C.S. Lewis

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Actions speak louder than words.
- English Proverb

The beginning is the half of every action.
- Greek Proverb

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be yet thankful.
- Colossians 3:15

Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman