Inspirational Quotes

::Compilation of Inspirational Quotes::

A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~John Burroughs, Writer

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
~Michelangelo

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
~Albert Einstein

Creation is the greatest drug. When you create something, you get this little endorphin buzz. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?
~Robin Williams

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
~Wallace Stevens

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
~Alexis Carrel (1873 – 1944)

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs (1955 – ) Stanford Commencement Address, 2005

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
~Paul Valery, French Poet

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far better than dictating demands
~Dan James

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
~Carl Jung

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
~Brian Tracy

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~Melody Beattie

When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior’s way.
~Dan Miliman

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.
~Lao Tzu

Every memorable act in the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
~Og Mandion

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
~Vince Lombardi

Be the change you want to see in the world.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
~Mark Victor Hansen

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~Bill Cosby

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
~Cavett Robert

When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.
~Marshall Sylver

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable.
~Sylvia Boorstein

Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow.
~ Swedish Proverb

Talent, genius, goodness, greatness, are not launched upon the world ready-made.  They are the result of a long train of causes and effects.
~James Allen

The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it.
~Rosemary Fillmore Rhea

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are willing to lose will be proportionate to what you are able to win.
~Marshall Sylver

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
~Ernest Holmes

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell and a hell of a heav'n.
~John Milton, poet

Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be
~Abraham Lincoln

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It's the end you're after.
~Anthony Robbins

You will never see what you are capable of, although you must seek to.
~Marshall Sylver

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
~Ernest Holmes

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~Lao-tzu

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.
~Marshall Sylver

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
~Alan Alda

You can’t have an up without a down. You can’t have a left without a right.  This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution.  The question is, Do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem? The solution is always there. The work can help you find it.  Write down the problem, question it, turn it around, and you have the solution.
~Byron Katie

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.  With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
~Marcus Garvey

When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.
~Marshall Sylver

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~Albert Einstein

Your goal should be out of reach, but not out of sight.
~Anita DeFrantz

Turn your 'problems' into 'challenges' and you will suddenly see results in a more positive light.
~Marshall Sylver

There are only 2 reasons that someone would want something in their life and not get it. First, they don't know what to do and second, they know what to do and don't know how to get themselves to do it consistently, if at all.
~Marshall Sylver

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~George Bernard Shaw

All That We Are Is The Result Of What We Have Thought.  The Mind Is Everything. What We Think, We Become.
~Buddha (563 – 483 B.C.)

Control Your Emotion Or It Will Control You.
~Chinese Adage

The Most Terrifying Thing Is To Accept Oneself Completely.
~Carl Jung

When You Hate The Only Person Who Suffers Is You, Because Most Of The People You Hate Don't Know It, And The Others Don't Care.
~Medgar Evers

If Everyone Is Thinking Alike, Then Somebody Isn't Thinking.
~George S. Patton

Beware Of Little Expenses. A Small Leak Will Sink A Great Ship.
~Benjamin Franklin

Failure To Prepare Is Preparing To Fail.
~John Wooden

The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In The Beauty Of Their Dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Its Not Whether You Get Knocked Down, Its Whether You Get Up.
~Vince Lombardi

The Heart Of A Fool Is In His Mouth, But The Mouth Of A Wise Man Is In His Heart.
~Benjamin Franklin

Failure Is Only The Opportunity To Begin Again More Intelligently.
~Henry Ford

Try not to be a man of success but rather a man of value.
~Albert Einstein

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
~William Blake

Imagination is more important then knowledge.
~Albert Einstein

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~Thomas Jefferson

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.
~John C. Maxwell

Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices.
~Margaret Jensen

While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.
~Evan H. Hopkins

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
~Richard Moss

Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water.
When you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup;
When you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle;
When you put water into the teapot, it becomes the teapot;
Now water can flow—-or it can crash.  Be water, my friend.
~Bruce Lee

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog; the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
~Corrie Ten Boom

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he…
~Proverbs 23:7

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
~proverbs 29:18

If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength.
~Proverbs 24:10

Listen to advise and accept instruction and in the end you will be wise.
~Proverbs 19:20

The way of a fool seems right to him but a wise man listens to advise.
~Proverbs 12:15

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
~Proverbs 14:23

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
~Proverbs 12:24

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit there of.
~Proverbs 18:21

Adversity is a mirror that reveals one's true self
~Chinese Proverb

To abandon something halfway is to fail completely
~Chinese Proverb

A calm heart adjusts to many changes
~Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself
~Chinese Proverb

Do not be concerned with things outside your door
~Chinese Proverb

First attain skill, creativity comes later
~Chinese Proverb

Under hurtful accusations often lies a weak case
~Chinese Proverb

Cowards have dreams, Brave men have visions
~Chinese Proverb

What first appears as a calamity may later bring good fortune
~Chinese Proverb

Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up
~Chinese Proverb

A man of leisure will never taste the fruit of success
~Chinese Proverb

Do not create in anger what you lack in reason
~Chinese Proverb

Human life is full of sorrow and conflict until we know of the way, whose course may be confusing to the ego
~Chinese Proverb

Life can never give security, it can only promise opportunity
~Chinese Proverb

Good deeds never leave home, Bad ones echo a thousand times
~Chinese Proverb

Fate leads those who are willing but must push those who are not
~Chinese Proverb

Those who spend all their time talking will have no time to think
~Chinese Proverb

It is better to be to skeptical than to be too trusting
~Chinese Proverb

While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.
~Bruce Lee