Inspirational Quotations | Page 3

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.