Friday, May 6, 2011

Inspirational Quotes

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus

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

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Babatunde Olatunji

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
John Wooden

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Author Unknown
Sometimes attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi

I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.
Etienne de Grellet

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beynon Ray

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

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

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring.
Lorrin L. Lee

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison

Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Author Unknown

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

Never be afraid to try, remember...
Amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
Author Unknown

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
Author Unknown

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Victoria Holt

Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
Author Unknown

This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi

Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

When life gives you lemons, cut them in half and squirt life in the eye!
Author Unknown

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come.
Harrison Ford

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato

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

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Order of the Knights of Pythagoras

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Judge John Kane

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
Confucius

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Martin Luther King

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

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Irish Blessing

Some complain that roses have thorns others rejoice that thorns have roses!
Author Unknown

Reality is negotiable.
Tim Ferriss

What you are is God's gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God.
Jewish Proverb

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Author Unknown

Always be a firstrate version of yourself, instead of a secondrate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.
Miguel de Cervantes

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
Proverb

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark van Doren

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Ed Howe

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
Emiliano Zapata

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
Coleman Hawking

It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Author Unknown

You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey