INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them.” – Booker T. Washington

“We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.” – Lester Levinson

“Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil.” – Goethe

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Anonymous

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde

“Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil

“Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.” – Sue Knight

“Life’s like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending.” – Jim Henson

“The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.” – Alan Cohen

“Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Good, tortured by it’s own hunger and thirst? When Good is hungry, it seeks food, even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Luck favors the well prepared.” – Anonymous

“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you have made mistakes there is always another chance for you… you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford

“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” – Albert Clarke

“For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.” – Fernandez de Andrada “You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.” – Alan Cohen

“What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.” – C. G. Jung

“You never regret being kind.” – Nicole Shepherd

“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.” – David Steindl-Rast

“The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.” – James Allen

“We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” – Margaret Mead

“Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.” – Fred Smith

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond.” – Rumi

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” – Pantanjali

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.” – E. Merrill Root

“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.” – Edward Eggleston

“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal

“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you’re heading.” – Lao Tzu

“If you want to help other people, do it secretly and not publicly.” Inspirational Quotes For Life Admin

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese proverb

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.” – French Proverb

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” – Cicero

“It’s easy to be brave from a safe distance.” – Aesop

“A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” – Rumi

“We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question ‘what must I do?’ disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose.” – Colleen-Joy Page

“This above all; to your own self be true.” – William Shakespeare

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” – Peter F. Drucker

“It is fine to make few mistakes than a blunder.” – David Kimberly

“Success is equal to failure plus determination.” – Inspirational Quotes For Life Admin

“Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.” – Rudolph Steiner

“The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.” – Alan Cohen

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.” – Sai Baba

“Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” – Dalai Lama

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.” – Anne Frank

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

“Go out looking for one thing, and that’s all you’ll ever find.” – Robert Flaherty

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

“Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control.” – Wess Roberts

“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore N. Vail

“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” – Roger Babson

“It is not in everyone’s power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.” – Luc De Clapiers

“Create a set of great personal values and surround yourself with the right people that can form your support system. Have an optimistic spirit and develop a strong purpose that you completely believe in and everything you can imagine is possible, for you.” – Andrew Horton

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” – Emily P. Bissell

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were” – Kahlil Gibran

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock

“You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.” – Phillip C. McGraw

“Attempt to discover a way to dig deeper into yourself. This is your life – and you’re worth it!” – Anonymous

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Roadacher Hershey

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” – David Allen

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.” – Elizabeth Cameron

“Motivate yourself today for what you can do for tomorrow. You are never too late for your goals.” – Inspirational Quotes For Life Admin

“We forge the chains we wear in life.” – Charles Dickens

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.” – Anais Nin

“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” – Anonymous

“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a small step.” – Chinese Proverb

“Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.” – Brian Tracy

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” – Patanjali

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“The highest form of spiritual work is the realization of the essence of man. You never learn the answer; you can only become the answer.” – Richard Rose

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.” – Marianne Williamson

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.” – Dalai Lama

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” – Chinese Proverb

“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen

“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” – Nelson Mandela

“The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.” – Dalai Lama

“Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.” – Andrew Schneider

“Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” – John C. Maxwell

“The more conscious you become, the more aware you become of how unconscious you’ve been.” – Patricia Sun

“Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse – the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level–we rediscover who God is.” – Andrew Cohen

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert Service

“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.” – Thomas Robert Gaines

“If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.” – Marion Woodman

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope

“God is the mind that imagines physical reality. We are each like a cell in that mind.” – Peter shepherd

“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” – Dan Millman

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak

“What you are right now is the result of all your choices and decisions.” – Sir DBT

“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true.” – John Lilly

“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action.” – Henry Miller

“I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” – Martha Stewart

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” – Mother Teresa

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Ghandi

“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” – Shakti Gawain

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” – Plato

“You can do anything, but not everything. – Anonymous

“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk… it’s all a miracle.” – Arthur Rubinstein

“Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass… it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – B.J. Gallagher

“The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive.” – Rachel England

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – John Mason

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Anonymous

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” – George Eliot

“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.” – English Proverb

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart

“If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.” – Dalai Lama

“The result of our people-judgments is that we often throw away someone’s ideas because they are voiced by the wrong person or because we don’t agree with all of their ideas.” – Thayer White

“When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” – Joseph Campbell

“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.” – Louis Nizer

“There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.” – Emmanuel

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” – Leo C. Rosten

“Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” – Barbara De Angelis

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

“In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.” – Chinese proverb

“Everyone has a purpose in life… a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.” – Deepak Chopra

“You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.” – The Group

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” – T. Harv Eker

“Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“We are more than what we do… much more than what we accomplish… far more than what we possess.” – William Arthur Ward

“God experiences Life through each of us, and we experience Life thanks to God.” – Peter Shepherd

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who have made a difference in our lives.” – Dan Zadra

“The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don’t want to impress. They achieve great things because they don’t look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.” – Lao Tzu

“People change and forget to tell each other.” – Lillian Hellman

“Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.” – Eric Hoffer

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” – Herman Melville

“The people who matter will recognize who you are.” – Alan Cohen

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

“God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

“Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.” – Alex Haley

“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Jalal alDin Muhammad Rumi

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“Discovering your strengths and talents is like constructing the basement for your home. It’s your foundation. It’s like the dirt from which a solid and beautiful tree may grow.” – Anonymous

“We can do anything we want to as long as we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

“There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.” – Heraclitus

“Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.” – Jim Collins

“It is never too late to become what you might have been.” – George Elliot

“Great masters merit emulation, not worship.” – Alan Cohen

“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.” – Harry Truman

“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.” – Dale Carnegie

“The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.” – Alan Cohen

“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.” – Dalai Lama

“Light that is One though the lamps be many.” – Robin Williamson

“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness … the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.” – Dalai Lama

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” – Johannes A. Gaertner

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”” – General Montgomery

“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.” – Golda Meir

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” – Winston Churchill

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” – Anonymous

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” – Swami Vivekananda

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” – Winston Churchill

“Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.” – Barry Neil Kaufman

“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.” – Stephen Covey

“Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – Marilyn vos Savan

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” – Jonathan Swift

“If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will GROW. Challenge the doubts with action and YOU will grow.” – John Kanary

“Love all God’s creations, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If you love each thing, you will perceive the mystery of God in All.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If your actions inspire others to do more, to learn more, to dream more or to become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

“Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi

“You can work through anything as long as you are not destroying yourself.” – Anonymous

“Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” – Nicholas Murray Butler

“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” – Colette

“Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.” – Donald A. Laird

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale

“Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.” – Tom Morris

“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.” – Nathaniel Branden

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” – Konrad Adenauer

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon

“Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.” – Sam Ewing

“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.” – Alain De Botton

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Ben Franklin

“I close my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin

“Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.” – Stedman Graham

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” – General Colin Powell

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched… but are felt in the heart.” – Helen Keller

“Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another’s personhood.” – Karen Casey

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” – Noam Chomsky

“I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.” – Japanese Haiku

“Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” – J. Petit Senn

“We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question ‘what must I do?’ disappears. When you discover who you are at the deepest page of your being, you will discover your purpose.” – Anonymous