Inspirational Quotes

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

When nothing makes sense and the world seems upside down, listen to your heart, it will never lie about your true feelings.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

It's your thinking that decides whether you're going to succeed or fail.

God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.

If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.