Inspirational Quotes

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

How does somebody know what they want if they haven't even seen it?

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The customer is never wrong.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.