Inspirational quotes

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
– Kevyn Aucoin

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
– Og Mandino

What we think, we become.
Buddha

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
– Jimmy Dean

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
Maya Angelou

Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.
– Bill Copeland

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
– Swami Sivananda

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
– Wilma Rudolph

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
– Jim Elliot

Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.
– Hans Christian Andersen

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
Les Brown

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
– Edith Wharton

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
Malala Yousafzai

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
– Octavia E. Butler

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Audrey Hepburn

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
– Paul Bryant

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
– Corita Kent

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
– William Arthur Ward

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
– Nido Qubein

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
– Han Suyin

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
– Jack Dempsey

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’
Muhammad Ali

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
– Milton Berle

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
– Augustus Hare

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
– Ben Okri

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Tony Robbins

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!
– William Allen White

When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett

If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
– James E. Faust

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu