Inspirational Quotations | Page 4

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

May you live all the days of your life.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.