Inspirational Quotes
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
I expect to pass through this life but once. Therefore, if there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for another human being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.
It is better to light a candle than to complain about the darkness.
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing.
If you are ever going to see a rainbow, you have to stand a little rain.
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
By perseverance, the snail reached the ark.
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
A wish is a desire without an attempt.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your own riches, but to reveal to him his own.
If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Is it a problem, or an opportunity to learn?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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.
Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
If you see a man on top of a mountain, remember he didn't fall there.
Mistakes are only different interpretations of the one idea.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
