Welcome to my collection of
inspirational quotes.
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
“The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.”
— Evan Williams
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
–Winston Churchill
“Bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
–Lao Tzu
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
— Henry Ford
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie
burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong
when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are
the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I
believe in miracles.”
― Audrey Hepburn
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
–Norman Vaughan
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
–Gandhi
“I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.”
— Warren Buffett
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
–Dr. Robert Schuller
“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”
— Richard Branson
“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.”
― Helen Keller
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”
–Helen Keller
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the
shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then
listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
–Christopher Morley
“There is the opportunity to do more and better if you’re smaller and more nimble.”
— Marc Andreessen
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“The best way out is always through.”
–Robert Frost
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
— Steve Jobs
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
–John Muir
“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”
— Steve Wozniak
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso
“Make each day your masterpiece.”
–John Wooden
“Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think
and ask the right questions so that the world doesn’t go to hell if you
take a day off.”
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
“The best dreams happen when you’re awake.”
–Cherie Gilderbloom
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can
steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you
know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
― Dr. Seuss
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
–Christopher Reeve
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that
dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
–T.S. Eliot
“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
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
–Charles Kettering
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
–Muhammad Ali
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
–Jimmy Johnson
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bil Keane
“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
“Light tomorrow with today.”
–Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
–Will Rogers
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky
“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”
–Mary Kay Ash
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
-Babe Ruth
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
–Theodore Roosevelt
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
–Napoleon Hill
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
–George Addair
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
–Karen Lamb
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
–George Eliot
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
–Roger Staubach
“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
–Teddy Roosevelt
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to
survival.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”
–John Madden
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
–Frederick Douglass
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
–Tim Ferriss
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
–Elbert Hubbard
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
–Richard Bach
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the
ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert
“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
–Albert Einstein
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your
whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it
one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you
going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the
present.”
― John Green
“Do what you love and the money will follow.”
–Marsha Sinetar
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
–Gary Player
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz
“You`ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.”
–Frank Gehry
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
–Victor Kiam
“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.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
–Dalai Lama
“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.”
–James Allen
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
–Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
― Audrey Hepburn
“Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.”
–Russell Warren
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Someday is not a day of the week.”
–Denise Brennan-Nelson
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho
“There are no short cuts to any place worth going.”
–Beverly Sills
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll
“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
–Arthur Christopher Benson
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.”
–Ben Hogan
“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.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
–Billie Jean King
“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it.
If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t
complain.”
― Maya Angelou
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
–Norman Vincent Peale
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss
“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”
–Arnold Palmer
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky
“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.”
–Mario Andretti
“You become what you believe.”
-Oprah Winfrey
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something
infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance
that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
― Rachel Carson
“Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”
-Doug Ivester
“No one is going to hand me success. I must go out & get it
myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world,
and myself.”
– Unknown
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
-Joseph Campbell
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”
–Confucius
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
-Margaret Thatcher
“A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty.”
–Erasmus
“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.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
-Howard Ruff
“Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.”
– Unknown
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what
it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new
country.”
-Anais Nin
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
-Steve Jobs
“Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.”
-Sir J. Mackintosh
“I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are
found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be
completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to
be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
-Napoleon Hill
“The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all.”
– Unknown
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
-Lao Tzu
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’ ”
-Audrey Hepburn
“A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of
preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated
during all this time.”
-Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle
“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
― George Lucas
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
-Vince Lombardi
“Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.”
– Unknown
“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it
will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your
spiritual environment.”
-Arthur Helps
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
-Maya Angelou
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
-Dalai Lama
“Few maxims are true from every point of view.”
-Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue
“You are the only you God made… God made you and broke the mold.”
― Max Lucado
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
-Wayne Gretzky
“Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive.
Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around… ”
– Unknwon
“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.”
-Thomas Merton
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
-Dalai Lama
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
-Amelia Earhart
“There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.”
-St. Evremond
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
― Maya Angelou
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.”
– Unknown
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
-Tony Robbins
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
-Sheryl Sandberg
“If you see someone without a smile give them yours.”
-Dolly Parton
“Human success is a quotation from overhead.”
-Charles H. Parkhurst
“Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang
paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga
taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.”
― Bob Ong
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.”
-Jim Rohn
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or
future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand
that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of
living.”
-Helen Keller
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective.
Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money,
materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
–Aristotle
“It’s never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy.”
-Jane Fonda
“A proverb is much light condensed in one flash.”
-Simmons
“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!!”
― Steve Maraboli
“Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.”
-Scott Reed
“Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said,
the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Be Careful!”
– Unknown
“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
-Bernard Williams
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
-Latin Proverb
“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”
-Unknown
“There is only one categorical imperative: Act only according to that
maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become
universal law.”
-Immanuel Kant
“Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
― Paul Brandt
“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”
-Ted Williams
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” –Larry Winget
“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good
poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible
words.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.”
-Unknown
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
-Drew Barrymore
“The diamond may adorn royalty, regardless of personal worth; but
jewels of thought render even poverty illustrious and sublime.”
-Gems for the Fireside
“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
― Ned Vizzini
“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
-Yoda
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
– Unknown
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a
bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a
smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
-Leo Buscaglia
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
-Marie Curie
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
-Bruce Lee
“Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh
today as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.”
-Samuel Smiles
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen
“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”
-Joe Namath
“We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some
lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.”
– Unknown
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
-Les Brown
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
-John Lennon
“A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.”
-Seneca
“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
― Joel Osteen
“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
― Anaïs Nin
“I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.”
-David Livingston
“Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have.
how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?”
– Unknown
“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or
bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform
it into something of value.”
-Hermann Hesse
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
-Joshua J. Marine
