Inspirational Quotes

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

You can have, do, or be anything you want.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

the most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you.

Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.