WORLD CLASS INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Inspirational Quotes

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell

Nothing is worth more than this day.
You cannot relive yesterday.
Tomorrow is still beyond our reach.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.
Anna Freud

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
William James

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand.
Napoleon Hill

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Brontë

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she will make the same effort, and have the same hope and faith.
Mahatma Gandhi

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
Orison Swett Marden

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.
John Gardner

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Wayne Gretzky Motivational Quotations We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton Storms make oaks take roots. Proverb If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandra Dream big and dare to fail. Norman Vaughan With will one can do anything. Samuel Smiles We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Ralph Waldo Emerson When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Well begun is half done. Greek Proverb The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Johann Gottfried Von Herder Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings And all may do what has by man been done. Edward Young Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe Latin Proverb Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been. Adelaide Proctor He turns not back who is bound to a star. Leonardo Da Vinci You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Author Unknown Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William B. Sprague Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Kenneth Hildebrand Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson Fortune favors the brave. Publius Terence When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. Richard Hooker He who hesitates is lost. Proverb If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. John B. Gough An oak is not felled at one blow. Spanish Proverb In doubtful matters boldness is everything. Publilius Syrus Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today. Elizabeth Barrett Browning In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. Norman Vincent Peale Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Orison Swett Marden Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: "What is my exciting thing for today?" Then I do the day. Barbara Jordan Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. Winston Churchill Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson Reach perfection. Baltasar Gracián For hope is but the dream of those that wake. Matthew Prior Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley   Words of Wisdom / Thoughts to Live By Nature and wisdom never are at strife. Plutarch It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois De La Rochefoucauld The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. William James The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. Solomon Ibn Gabriol Wisdom is better than gold or silver. German Proverb Years teach us more than books. Berthold Auerbach It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. Latin Proverb The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard. - Abraham Maslow The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. William Penn The middle course is the best. Cleobulus The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. Pythagoras The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Thomas Huxley A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. Latin Proverb Silence does not always mark wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Measure a thousand times and cut once. Turkish Proverb The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. A. Maude Royden Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. John Milton By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. Menander The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. John Tillotson The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. Alexander Chase How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Homer The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. Confucius Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb