Popular Inspirational Quotes

"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."

"If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks."

"Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion - of fun, love, or something that will outlast you - so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions."

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."

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

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."

"Ideas without action are worthless."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things."

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."

"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"One must desire something to be alive."

"Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow."

"If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live."

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose

"Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't."

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

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.