Inspirational Quotes

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Start where you are, use what you have.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking!

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

If the shoe fits, wear it.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.