Inspirational Quotes

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

Pressure makes diamonds

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.