Inspirational Quotations | Page 4

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

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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

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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

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.

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

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

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.

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

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

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.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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

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.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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.

May you live all the days of your life.

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

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.

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

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

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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