Inspirational Quotations

These quotations offer inspiring and uplifting wisdom and will hopefully brighten your day.

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"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

-John Updike

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Just remember, the only people not making mistakes are those who aren't doing anything."

-Tim W. Welborn

"It is a great blessing to meet struggle and opposition with whatever fire there is in us that is kindled by these. Life does not mean merely following the softest road, the path of least resistance; it is doing something vital. Hardships and difficulties bring out the best in us and make us strong."

-Swami Paramananda

"Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."

-Benjamin Franklin

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind . . . let it be something good."

-unknown

"Dont cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

-unknown

"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."

-Maria Mitchell

"If you find out how to make money at something you love doing, then you'll never have to work another day in your life."

-unknown

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down."

-Kobi Yamada

"As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest."

-Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne

"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones."

-George Bernard Shaw

"To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. It is not enough to have opportunity; it is essential to feel it."

-Walter Bagehot

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

-Albert Einstein

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy."

-Albert Einstein

"Begin to weave and God will give you the thread."

-German Proverb

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

-Pablo Picasso

"Once I was driving up Pacific Coast Highway on my way to work on a movie set at a mansion on the beach in Malibu. It was a nice day and there was a clunker of a car driving next to me with all the windows open. It was a 'poor' Mexican family. They were all smiling and singing. The father looked kind. The kids looked happy. I saw them and hoped that someday I would be have a rich life like that."

-Anonymous

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

-Anonymous

"Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."

-Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

-Leonardo DaVinci

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."

-Marin Luther King, Jr.

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."

-Ziggy

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

-Ernest Hemingway

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

-Josh Billings

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

-Douglas Adams

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

-unknown

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

-Horace

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

-Epicurus

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

-Helen Keller

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

-Dale Carnegie

"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."

-Louis Pasteur

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make."

-Aristotle

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

-Benedict Spinoza

"The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life."

-William James