Inspiring Quotes

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." --Buddha
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.--John Wooden
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

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

"I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours."
~Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook"

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."
- Emily Kimbrough

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

"To the world, you are only one person. But to one person, you may mean the world."

"Know your limits - but never stop trying to exceed them."
-- Anonymous

"Good friends are good for your health."
-- Irwin Sorason

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
- Dr. Denis Waitley

"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
- Roberto Assagioli

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
- Lawrence J. Peter

"It's hard to beat a person that never gives up."
- Babe Ruth

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent."
-- John Donne

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-- Carl Gustav Jung

"No one ever drowned in sweat."
-- U.S. Marine saying

"I think we need to understand one thing; the things we want out of life, our desires, have to be stronger than the things we're afraid of - if we're serious about being successful."
- Mack Newton

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of."
-- Charles Richards

"Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training and some are not."
-- George Sheehan

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
- Swedish Proverb

"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others."
- Sharon Anthony Bower

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."
- Greg Anderson

"True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united."
- Humboldt

"No vision and you perish; no ideal, and you're lost; your heart must ever cherish some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, some rainbow in the sky, some melody to sing to, some service that is high."
- Harriet Du Autermont

"Inspiring people are vitamins for our spirits. They come in all kinds of disguises and descriptions. If you open your heart to being inspired, they will appear."
-- Sark

"Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching..."
- Anonymous

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live"
-- Flora Whittemore

"To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."
-- William Londen

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
- Anonymous

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare

"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."
-- Epictetus

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
--Lee Iacocca

" Behold the turtle, he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out."
--James Bryant Conant

"Who I am really keeps surprising me."
--Nikki Giovanni

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
--Margrart Lee Runbeck

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In doing what we ought to, we deserve no praise."
--Anonymous

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
--Harvey Fierstein

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The groundwork of all happiness is good health."
--Leigh Hunt

"The best antique is an old friend."
--Anonymous

"What reason weaves, by passion is undone."
--Alexander Pope

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
--Gandhi

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
--Anonymous

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life; love shouldn't be one of them.

"I don't believe in failure."
--Oprah Winfrey

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you got."
--Lee Iacocca

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the
doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph." -Wynn Davis

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
--Wayne Dyer