Inspirational Quotes

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

What one can be, one must be!

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

The start is what stops most people.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Time to toss the dice

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Man is a universe within himself.

The game honors toughness

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.