Inspirational, Motivational and Love Quotes

Cherish your visions and ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore.

In my life I have often been given the advice - just be yourself. I only wish that I had instead been advised to - let yourself Be.

We are more than what we do
much more than what we accomplish
far more than what we possess.

William Arthur Ward

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

Chinese proverb

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

It is not what is happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it is your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you are going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves self-discipline with all of them came first.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday
is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by peoples opinions or by comparisons to others.

The simplest questions are often the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while, and watch your answers change.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Argue for your limitations,
and sure enough, they are yours.

Richard Bach

Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: the Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion…this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind the clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.