Inspirational Quotes

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

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

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

We become what we think about.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Every moment is a new beginning.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

I love pitting people against each other. My whole life is based on that. It brings out the best in people and the worst in people. If the worst comes out, you don't want them working for you.

We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents.

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Love like you'll never be hurt.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.