Inspirational Quotes: Inspirational sayings, quotations, picture quotes

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Short Pain Suffering

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Short Personality Character

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Short

Lead from the back - and let others believe they are in front.

Short

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Short Witty Perspective

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Short

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Short Perseverance

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Short Wisdom

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Short Time Positive Attitude

Be always with people who inspire you; surround yourself with people who lift you up

Short Friends People

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.

Short Action Control

You don't have to like someone, but you have to treat them as you wish to be treated.

Short Attitude The light in the heart

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

Short Success

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Short

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Short Responsibility Mind

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Short Choice Strength

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Short Thinking

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Short Positive Attitude

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Short

Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them.

Short Success Passion The light in the heart

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Short Wisdom Pain Experience

There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain.

Short

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

Short

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Short Perseverance

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Life Short

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Life Short Positive Attitude

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Life People

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Life Strength

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door is blown away. Too busy gold-plating the cage to soar to their ultimate possibility.

Life Being human Spirituality Possibility

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

Life Short Truth The light in the heart

It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.

Life

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Life Short Truth

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Life Truth People Hurt

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life Truth Mistake

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Life Short Positive Attitude

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Life Short

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Life Perseverance

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Life Integrity

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Life Success Perspective

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Life Individuality Opinion

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Life Short Kindness Difficulty

There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Life Truth Wisdom

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Life Peace Earth

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Life People

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Life Humor Expectation

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

Life Short Writing

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Courage Life Short

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Courage Hope

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Courage Short Fear

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Courage Short Strength

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

Courage Life Short Truth

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

Courage Death Life

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Courage Failure Short Success

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Courage Short Belief

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Courage Strength

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Courage Life Short

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Courage Seeking Action Effort

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Courage Passion

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage Wisdom Strength

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Courage

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Courage Life Truth Mind

Until you step into the unknown, you don't know what you're made of.

Courage Short Strength

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Courage Failure Success

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Courage Heart Pain Perseverance

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Courage Man

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Courage Death Short Fear

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Courage Short Moment

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up

Courage

There is a distance between possibility and reality. Do you have the courage and commitment to walk this distance?

Courage Reality Possibility

To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.

Courage Life Action The light in the heart

You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.

Change Growth Limitation

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Change Responsibility

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Change Politics Short

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Change Science Wisdom

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

Change Short Choice The light in the heart

You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

Change Dreams Life Comfort

You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.

Change Short Truth The light in the heart

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Change World

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

Change Life Short Growth

The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Change Success Action Thought

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Change Short Growth Past

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Change Hope

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Change Life Short Advice

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

Change Short

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

Change Personality

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Change Success Attitude

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Change Life

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Change Short

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine

Change Truth Wisdom

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

Change Life Relationship Mistake

Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Wisdom Darkness

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Wisdom Character Men Power

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Wisdom

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Wisdom Belief

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Wisdom

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Wisdom

We all make mistakes... so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Wisdom Mistake Future

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Wisdom Difficulty Reading Writing

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Wisdom

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Wisdom

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Wisdom

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Wisdom Man

You do your best. It doesn't matter somebody approves or disapproves. No two human beings have come alike. Someone may be a back-bencher in school but a frontbencher in life. Exam is not a deciding factor. Strive relentlessly, result is a consequence of competence

Wisdom

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Wisdom Humor

You can never get everyone's approval for what you want to do. So, don't worry about it.

Wisdom Acceptance Attitude

It is the business of every human being, according to your intelligence, understanding, and situation, to do the best you can for yourself and everyone around you

Wisdom Compassion Humanity Inclusiveness

Do not aspire to meet a wonderful person. Aspire to become the wonderful person that you expect others to be

Wisdom

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Failure Life Perseverance

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Failure Short Success Positive Attitude

You never fail until you stop trying.

Failure Short Positive Attitude

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Failure Fear Strength The light in the heart

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Failure

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Failure Short

Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but 'low aim', is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

Failure Fear

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Failure Short Success Limitation

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Failure Opportunity Short Positive Attitude

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Failure Success

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Failure Short Insult

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

Failure Short Success Perseverance

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Failure Success

For a committed person, there is no such thing as failure - just lessons to be learned on the way

Failure Short Positive Attitude

Behind every successful entrepreneur is a former failed self.

Failure Short Success

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Hope Nature Short

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Hope

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Hope Love

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Hope Short

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Hope Short

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Hope Life Short Smile

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Hope Life Short

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Hope Life Question

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

Hope Short

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

Hope Soul

Hoping... is how the impossible can be possible after all.

Hope

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Hope Short

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

Hope Short Darkness

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Hope Short

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Hope Suffering World

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Hope Love World

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

Happiness Heart

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Happiness Thought

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Happiness Expectation Advice Reality

My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.

Happiness Success Strength Past

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Happiness Memory Health

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Happiness Positive Attitude

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Happiness Thought

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, believe, Do and mostly Live.

Happiness

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness Work Responsibility Action

Happiness is only real when shared

Happiness Love Short

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Happiness Perspective

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Happiness

The greatest fulfillment in life is to do something which is much larger than yourself.

Happiness Life Short Being human

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

Dreams Heart Short Fear

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

Dreams Short Future

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Dreams Life

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.

Dreams Short The light in the heart

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Dreams Short Reality

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Dreams Freedom Short Individuality

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Dreams

Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.

Dreams Goal Individuality The light in the heart

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Dreams Truth

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however

Dreams Short Power

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

Dreams Short

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Dreams Life

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.

Heart Wisdom Growth The light in the heart

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Heart Positive Attitude Advice

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Heart Wisdom

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.

Heart Short Feeling

To care about your outward appearance is important, but what's more important is to have a beautiful soul.

Heart Soul

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Heart Short

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Heart Relationship Idea

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

Heart Man

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Heart Short Passion People

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Heart Short

It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!

Heart

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Love Marriage Relationship Romantic

Love is the absence of judgment.

Love Judgement

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

Love Kindness Feeling Integrity

When you love someone, it is a privilege to do something for them. Service is a poor substitute for love

Love Relationship Truth

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Love Strength

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Love Short

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Love Seeking Understanding

Always be fearless. Walk like lions, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.

Love Life lessons

If something in you blossoms, people are willing to overlook all the thorns that are there in you.

Love Wisdom Analogy

Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

Philosophy Short Truth Wisdom

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Philosophy

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Philosophy Perseverance

You don't have to be better than everyone else, but you have to be at your best.

Philosophy Short Success Witty

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Philosophy Writing

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Philosophy

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Philosophy

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Philosophy Science Knowledge Compassion

If you are joyful and you have created joy for people around you, then you do not have to go to heaven because you are already there

Philosophy Truth Joy

What are you so afraid of? Live totally today and if you fall dead tomorrow out of exhaustion, it's okay

Philosophy Wisdom Fear

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Beauty Change Success

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Analogy

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Hate Love Peace Darkness

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Seeking Individuality Humans

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Goal Short Humor

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Hate Love

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Kindness

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Funny Humor Society

In the universities somehow the faces are longer; maybe it's the weight of knowledge or something.

Funny Short Witty Knowledge

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Kindness Humanity

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

God Philosophy Politics Religion

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Education Learning

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Death

Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

Forgiveness Life Truth Perspective

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Death Life Silence

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Success Perseverance

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

History Love Truth Evil

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Strength Mind Power Self control

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Death Fear

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

People

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

Forgiveness Hate Wisdom Life lessons

What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.

Opinion The light in the heart

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Kindness Smile Compassion

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Desire Success Truth

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Truth

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

Perseverance Action

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

Death Life Short Humor

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

Freedom

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

Imagination Limitation

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Peace Short Yoga

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Perseverance World

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

Success Truth

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Success Positive Attitude

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Freedom

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm... No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Opportunity

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

Success Money Kindness

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Truth

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Expectation Acceptance

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

Short

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Short Humor

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Time Problems

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Desire Success Analogy Mind

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Short

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

Humor

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Short Possibility

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Life Control

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Analogy

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Short Advice Action

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Opportunity Short Simile

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

Short Truth Wisdom Thinking

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

Freedom Love

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.

Men

Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

Life Time

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

History Life Comfort

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Life Short

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Action

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Short People

Whatever happens, you getting depressed is not a solution. You getting depressed would be one more problem

Truth Witty Wisdom Positive Attitude

If you nurture the root, you don't have to bother about the fruit - it will come naturally.

Short Success Witty Wisdom

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extra-ordinary.

Short Wisdom Choice

If you try to give up something, it will rule your mind. But, if you find something deeper in life, the less significant will just fall off

Life Success Truth Wisdom

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build... live the life that only you can live.

Life

Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance

Life Opportunity Short

When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don't give up.

The light in the heart

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Power World

Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to.

Mind The light in the heart

Keep Going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Life Time Moment The light in the heart

If you don't give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.

Short Success Belief

Be the positive impact on the lives of others.

Life Short Kindness

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.

Kindness The light in the heart

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Loss

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

The light in the heart

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Desire Short

Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.

Life Short Action Moment

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Religion Spirituality Reading

Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.

Strength The light in the heart

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Beauty

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Forgiveness Happiness Future Learning

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Choice Intelligence Effort

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.

Short People The light in the heart

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge - every adversity - contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Opportunity Growth

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Life Mistake Future Past

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

Choice Individuality

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Humor

love the life you live. live the life you love.

Life Love Short

Peace begins with a smile..

Peace Short Kindness Smile

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Friendship

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Future

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Question

My Life is My Message

Life

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

Death Life Short Strength

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Life

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Work

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Freedom

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Short Pain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Funny Short Mind

Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.

Life The light in the heart

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Life Short

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Strength

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Faith Forgiveness Hope Love

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Life

Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.

Kindness Light

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Short

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Education Future People

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Short Growth Strength

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Short Perseverance

To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.

Learning

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Death Education Growth Learning

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Funny Short Success

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.

Life

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Kindness

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Soul Life lessons

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Beauty Hope Short Joy

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Beauty Imagination Poetry

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.

Life Opportunity Truth

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're going to fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

All great achievements require time.

Short Time

I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

Fear Health

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Humor Attitude

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Fearless is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again... even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Beauty Happiness Perspective

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Life Success Perseverance

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Life Experience

Listen- are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Life Poetry

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

Relationship People

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.

Humor Individuality

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Passion

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

Opinion

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Time Integrity

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Short Individuality

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

Short Light

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

Life Love

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

Truth Advice Life lessons The light in the heart

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

Life Short

Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.

Life Difficulty The light in the heart

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Action Knowing

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Knowledge Art

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Short Wisdom

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.

Faith Happiness Hope

Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.'

Positive Attitude

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Short

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Death Life Music

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Expectation

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

Short Success

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Life

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

Humor

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Life

Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.

Relationship Short

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Beauty Heart Life Love

Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

Success

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries to get there.

Perseverance Effort

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Power Thinking

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

Death Life

The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.

Short Limitation

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Life

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

God

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

Short

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Time

I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.

Short Fear Future Past

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Freedom Attitude

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Action Words

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Short Wisdom Ignorance

May you live every day of your life.

Life Philosophy Short

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Short

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Humor Positive Attitude Action

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Death Philosophy Poetry

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Character Advice

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

Thought Life lessons

Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Life Relationship People

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Short

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Work

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Short Kindness Compassion

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Short

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Short Time

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Short Character Strength Mind

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Goal

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Short Silence

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Hate Suffering

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Short Soul Experience

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Relationship

At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

Positive Attitude Feeling

Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Short

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

Life

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

Choice

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Life

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Writing

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Short

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Time

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

Life Love Nature

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Short Man

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Short Success

A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Perseverance

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

Work

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

Life Short Mistake Judgement

If you have a clear picture in your head of something that's going to happen... then nothing can stop it.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

Personality Individuality

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Strength Difficulty

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Mistake Perseverance

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.

Short Truth Wisdom

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard... we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

Education

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Growth Perseverance Smile Strength

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Relationship Integrity Humans

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

Life Truth Wisdom Joy

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.

Short Pain Acceptance

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Life Short Growth

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Short Belief Humans

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Life Short

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

Time Work Action

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Life Short Kindness

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Women Individuality

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that "extra" in "extraordinary."

Growth The light in the heart

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Relationship Short Success Growth

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

Short

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Education Short Children

if you're not in competition with me, you would explore the possibilities of what you could do and maybe we don't know, you could fly. I can walk fast, maybe you could fly, but you will miss out the possibility of flying because you're in competition with me.

Education Possibility

An intention will not make things happen. It will only set the direction. You still have to make the journey

Success Truth

When you came into this world, you came without a single investment. So whatever happens in your life, anyway you are in profit.

Life Philosophy Perspective World

If you do things you like with 100% involvement, you must do what you don't like with 200% involvement. That's breaking limitations

Success Limitation

If you use the horror of who you are as manure, the beauty of who you could be could flower.

Poetry Wisdom

Competitors are not enemies. They are people who keep reminding you of your own shortcomings. Your quality control.

Short Success People

The crisis is always an opportunity for human beings to rise beyond themselves.

Opportunity Short Success Problems

Because somebody is going to throw stones at us, should we remain without fruit in our life? That would be a tragedy

Life Positive Attitude Perspective

Leadership should not be an aspiration. It should be a consequence of competence.

Short Wisdom

The Creator did not make a mistake with you - the mistake is all yours. You are a fantastic piece of life, but you have silly ideas about life.

Life Mistake Idea

Contentment is a poor substitute for joy. It means you have given up on the possibility of living joyfully

Witty Joy Possibility

Not disaster or disease, stagnation is the worst thing that can happen to a human being

Short Truth Being human

If you want a plant to grow and blossom into beautiful fragrant flowers, you can think you are fighting the earth and getting flowers out of it. Or you can see it as a great love affair, that your involvement with the earth gives out such beauty and fragrance for you

Beauty Love Philosophy Wisdom

There is no need to be perfect, but are you a constant striving to be better. That is all that matters.

Success

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.

Life Short Light

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

Short Perspective

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Short Success World The light in the heart

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Goal

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Short Universe

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

Learning Life lessons The light in the heart

Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.

Goal Short Fear The light in the heart

How would your life be different if... You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day...You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.

Life Relationship Kindness

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

Forgiveness

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine

Music Mind People

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Book

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

World

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

Writing

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Short Ignorance Knowing

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Life Short Kindness

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.

Goal

Scars are not injuries... A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

Courage

I don't care that they stole my idea... I care that they don't have any of their own

Idea

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Short Learning

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Life

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Courage Life

Life has a certain pace. You should be joyfully in a hurry but never impatient

Life Philosophy Short

Being a leader does not mean dominating the situation. It means empowering people to do what they would not have imagined possible

Possibility People

It is the ability to bring out the best in others that makes you a leader.

Short One liners

If you want to have deep insights into life, no one's opinion about you should mean anything to you

Life Success Truth Wisdom

Those who try to avoid uncertainty only end up avoiding possibilities.

Short One liners Positive Attitude Possibility

One thing every human being can strive for is to leave this world a little better than it was when you entered it

Positive Attitude World

All possibilities are problems when they are not realized.

Short One liners Positive Attitude Problems

Everyone is capable of doing great things but socially we are teaching them to do easy things

Short Success Society Spirituality

Only when you are willing to look at the horror of who you are, the beauty of who you are can be nurtured

Beauty Wisdom

If you are deeply involved with even the simplest aspects of your life, you will see every aspect of your life is spectacular.

Life Success

You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.

Short Success Spirituality

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.

Life Philosophy Truth Wisdom

Modern education is purely informative - there is no inspiration. Without inspiration, no human being raises beyond the limitations in which he lives. It's only when he's inspired that a human being wants to go beyond the limitations in which he exists right now

Education Limitation

You do not have to depend on the compassion of others. The whole world can live under the umbrella of your compassion

Compassion Inclusiveness World

If your goal and actions are right, and you keep going the same way, then the same people who are talking about you, the same people who are criticizing you, will venerate you in ten years' time. That is how life is.

Goal Success Action People

incredible things can be done, not because we know how to do it. Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen

Success

Don't blame God or anyone else if you are suffering from disease, financial problems, emotional upsets. You created the cause of the problem in the past and must make a greater determination to uproot it now.

God Suffering