Inspirational Quotes

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.