Inspirational Quotes

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

Respect, recognition, and reward flow out of performance.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

Standing is harder than moving.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

You can get old pretty young if you don't take care of yourself.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Believe the best of everybody.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.