Inspirational Quotes

"Under the sky, under the heaven, there is but ONE Family. It's just that people are different." -- Bruce Lee "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." -- Nelson Henderson "Avoiding the phrase, 'I don't have time..., will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life." -- Bo Bennett, Year to Success "Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people." -- Lee Iacocca "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him." -- Victor Frankl "I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree Lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your Parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned That making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." I've Learned ! that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you Need to be able to throw something back. I've learned that whenever I Decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've Learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People Love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I Still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how You made them feel." -- Maya Angelou "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -- Abraham Lincoln "The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others." -- Madame De Maintenon "One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people." -- Dick Gregory "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." -- Burton Hills "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." -- Dale Carnegie "Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." -- unknown "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." -- Storm Jameson "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." -- Margaret B. Runbeck "It is not length of life, but depth of life." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "May you live all the days of your life." -- Jonathan Swift "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." -- Helen Keller "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." -- Stephen Covey "Never live in the past but always learn from it." -- unknown "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." -- Buddha "The heart is wiser than the intellect." -- J.G. Holland "A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams." -- unknown "We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Attitude determines altitude." -- unknown "Believe in who you are and allow yourself to soar." -- Anne Rose "People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." -- unknown "No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big." -- unknown "A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world." -- Mohammed "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -- Anatole France "To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but act." -- Bill Blackman "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." -- Author Unknown "We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams..." -- Arthur O'Shaughnessy "Dream as if you'll live forever...live as if you'll die today." -- James Dean "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." -- Dale E. Turner "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." -- Goethe "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Greatness has never been acheieved by playing it safe or taking the easy road." -- Suzette Franck "That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." -- William Wordsworth "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." -- Robert M. Pirsig "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." --Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do." --Moliere "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." -- Buddha "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -- Martin Luther "People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway." -- Bishop Abel Muzorewa "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." -- Arthur Ashe "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -- Vincent Van Gogh "Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." -- Wayne Gretzky "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." -- Henry Ford "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." -- Unknown "My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." -- Jim Henson "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -- Maya Angelou "This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." -- Susan Polis Schutz "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 "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." -- Charles R. Swindoll