INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES Series....
Famous Inspirational Quotes

Here's a collection of famous inspirational quotes from many names you will recognize. It's amazing how the same idea or sentiment can be expressed in so many ways. These words of inspiration are great for everyday reading, for personal and business presentations, and for teachers and coaches.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world."

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi

Don't go through life, GROW through life.
Eric Butterworth

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown

Friends are those rare people
who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham

Think for yourself and let others enjoy
the privilege of doing so too.
Voltaire

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
James Lowell

He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Poole

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living
at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve
to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

Speak when you're angry,
and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Lawrence J. Peter

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Anonymous

Begin somewhere.
You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel,
and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

You will never find time for anything.
If you want the time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

The more we give of anything,
the more we shall get back.
Grace Speare

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Effie Jones

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern

The only place you’ll find success before work is in the dictionary.
May B. Smith

All my life I’ve wanted to be somebody.
But I see now I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner

I have learned from experience that
the greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.
English Proverb

I wasn’t afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May

It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

You see things and say 'Why?';
but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' "
George Bernard Shaw

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray

One who makes no mistakes makes nothing.
Anon

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield

You can if you think you can.
George Reeves

'To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour'.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub.

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Not everything that looks good is good. Do not be envious or jealous of others seemingly greater fortune. For it may be exactly that seemingly greater When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
Shakespeare

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
Anon

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty
John Keats

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank

We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln

Just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others - and, therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself.
Ayn Rand

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