Inspirational Quotes

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

My sun sets to rise again.

If you want to be happy, be.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.