Motivational and inspirational Quotes

I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average abilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-- Mohammed

What really matters is what you do with what you have.
-- Shirley Lord

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation
If there is order in the nation, there will be Peace in the World.
-- Chinese Proverb

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
-- Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
-- Kemp

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
-- Whitney Young, Jr.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
-- Henry Ford

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
-- Anonymous

You can stay young as long as you learn.
-- Emily Dickinson

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
-- George Sand

You give little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
-- Napoleon Hill

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
-- Hugh Downs

And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cherish your visions and you dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-- Napoleon Hill

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
-- W. Clement Stone

A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and chewed it up for you before giving it to you?"
-- Anonymous

Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-- Calvin Coolidge

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
-- Helen Keller

They can because they think they can.
-- Virgil

You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
-- Michael Pritchard

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
-- Chief Seattle

Age only matters when one is ageing. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might just as well be twenty.
-- Pablo Picasso

Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
-- Henry Miller

Life is a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-- Wilson Mizner

Your body cannot heal without play.
Your mind cannot heal without laughter.
Your soul cannot heal without joy.
-- Catherine Rippenger Fenwick

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
-- Socrates

The things taught in school are not an education but a means to an education.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go.
-- Anonymous

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
-- Reggie Leach

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
-- Dale Carnegie

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
-- Michael LeBeuf

Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.
-- Anonymous

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
-- John Stuart Mill

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
-- Whalt Whitman

To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals--this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life
-- William Osler

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

You give but a little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of your heart that you truly give.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Do all the good you can,
in all the ways you can,
to all the souls you can,
in every place you can,
at all the times you can,
With all the zeal you can,
as long as ever you can.
-- John Wesley

If not you, then who?
If not now, then when?
-- Hillel

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
-- Buddha

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
-- Anonymous

You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you will have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.
-- Zig Zigler

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
-- Confucius

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
-- William Morris