Inspirational Quotations

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

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"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

-unknown

"Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior."

-B. F. Skinner

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

-Malcolm S. Forbes

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

-Victor Hugo

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."

-Jim Rohn

"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks."

-Will Durant

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

-Heraclitus

"And will you succeed? You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)"

-Dr. Seuss

"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."

-Ray Bradbury

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

-William Arthur Ward

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

-George Eliot

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

-Thomas Fulle

"It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not that does."

-unknown

"Some dream of doing great things, while others stay awake and get on with it."

-unknown

"We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short term obstacles."

-Jim Rohn

"Goals... There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them."

-Jim Rohn

"One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse."

-Angelius Silesius

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form."

-Albert Einstein

"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."

-Tryon Edwards

"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."

-Daisaku Ikeda

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

-John Updike

"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."

-Vince Lombardi

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

-Ernest Hemingway

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."

-Samuel Johnson

"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."

-Philip Dormer Chesterfield

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

-Henry David Thoreau

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

-Malcolm X

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."

-Alvin Toffler

"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm."

-Fred Dehner

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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