Inspirational Quotes

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Behold this day. It is yours to make.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

All things come to those who wait.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

No artist tolerates reality.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.