Inspirational Quotes

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

If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Babatunde Olatunji

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

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
John Wooden

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Author Unknown
Sometimes attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi

I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.
Etienne de Grellet

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beynon Ray

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. Rowling

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

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 that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring.
Lorrin L. Lee

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero

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

Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Author Unknown

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

Never be afraid to try, remember...
Amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
Author Unknown

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
Author Unknown

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Victoria Holt

Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
Author Unknown

This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare