inspirational quotes

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Man is not made for defeat.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.