The only journey is the one within – Rainer Maria Rilke
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it – Edith Wharton
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination – Jimmy Dean
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky – Rabindranath Tagore
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us – Joseph Campbell
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
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away – Henry David Thoreau
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
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference – Robert Frost
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow – Abdul Kalam
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world – Desmond Tutu
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart – Marcus Aurelius
We know what we are, but know not what we may be – William Shakespeare
The only journey is the one within – Rainer Maria Rilke
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped – Tony Robbins
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand – Mother Teresa
Every story I create, creates me I write to create myself – Octavia E Butler
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
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and Shadows will fall behind you – Walt Whitman
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible – Francis of Assisi
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
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
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
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
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants
Isaac Newton Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago – Warren Buffett
There is nothing impossible to him who will try – Alexander the Great
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams – Hosea Ballou
In a gentle way, you can shake the world – Mahatma Gandhi
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves – Robert Quillen
When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go – Carol Burnett
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known – Sharon Begley
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible – Arthur C Clarke
Whoever is happy will make others happy too – Anne Frank
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves – Thomas A Edison
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start – Nido Qubein
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present – Jim Rohn
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination – Earl Nightingale
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance – Morgan Freeman
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality – Plutarch
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul – Democritus
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today! William Allen White When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves – William Arthur Ward
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself – Plato
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others – Rosa Parks
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome – Wilma Rudolph
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will
Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment – Arthur
Helps In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand
Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit – cummings
A place for everything, everything in its place – Benjamin Franklin
Courage, my friends; ’tis not too late to build a better world – Tommy Douglas
My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning – Isaac Asimov
You change your life by changing your heart – Max Lucado
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars – Les Brown
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him – Jim Elliot
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind – Johannes Brahms
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you Unknown The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper – Bertrand Russell
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass! – Paul J
Meyer The power of imagination makes us infinite – John Muir
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do – Georgia O’Keeffe
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite – William Blake
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country – Anais Nin
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money – Thomas Jefferson
Belief creates the actual fact – William James
Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future – Mattie Stepanek
We have it in our power to begin the world over again – Thomas Paine
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask, Everything you want also wants you, But you have to take action to get it – Jules Renard
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation – Michael Jackson
Reach for it Push yourself as far as you can – Christa McAuliffe
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed – Dale Carnegie
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself – James Allen
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout – Morihei Ueshiba
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil – Victor Hugo
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over – F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings – Gustave Flaubert
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration – William Ellery
Channing Ideas shape the course of history – John Maynard Keynes
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises – Leo Buscaglia
Nurture your minds with great thoughts, To believe in the heroic makes heroes – Benjamin Disraeli
Today is the only day, Yesterday is gone – John Wooden
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens – Charles Morgan
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength – Richard L Evans
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible – Theodore Roethke
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven – Henry Ward Beecher
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live – Anatole France
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish – Michelangelo
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself – Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help – Pope Paul VI
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul – Thomas Merton
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too – Helen Hayes
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself – Andre Gide
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value – Hermann Hesse
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed – Blaise Pascal
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries – Corita Kent
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors, But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love – Khalil Gibran
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm – Jean Paul
The authentic self is the soul made visible – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well – Muhammad Iqbal
Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me – Marlee Matlin
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there – Meister Eckhart
Show me your hands Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet, Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart, Have you left a place for divine love? – Fulton J. Sheen
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit – Bernard Williams
Enthusiasm moves the world – Arthur Balfour
You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you Alan Watts If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it – Lucy Larcom
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel – Augustus Hare
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself – Wallace Stevens
Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers – Hans Christian Andersen
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see – CS Lewis
Find out who you are and be that person, That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come – Ellen DeGeneres
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom – Friedrich Schiller
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars – Nicolaus Copernicus
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers
And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts – Sylvester Stallone
Hope is but the dream of those who wake – Matthew Prior
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man – Arthur Young
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions – Nikolai Gogol
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge – Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness – Han Suyin
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning – Black Elk
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them – Vincent McNabb
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars – Edward Young
Act like you expect to get into the end zone – Christopher Morley
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat – Wallis Simpson
I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed – Nikos Kazantzakis
Let each man exercise the art he knows – Aristophanes
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world – Emmet Fox
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me – Zane Grey
Happiness is the natural flower of duty – Phillips Brooks
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years – Junipero Serra
It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment – Andrew Wyeth
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes, I have put my heart near your heart – Pope John XXIII
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder – Joseph Wood Krutch
And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see – Donald Cargill
We are here to make another world – W Edwards Deming
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind – Robert Fulghum
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship – Buddha
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy true fulfillment – Tony Robbins
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud – Maya Angelou
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation – A.J P Abdul Kalam
The best way out is always through – Robert Frost
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world – Anne Frank
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it – Amelia Barr
When deeds speak, words are nothing – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility – Charles Kettering
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others
What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that! Ken Hensley Think with your whole body – Taisen Deshimaru
Our ideals are our better selves – Amos Bronson Alcott
My mind’s my kingdom – Francis Quarles
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free – Ray Manzarek
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls – Joseph Campbell
Each day provides its own gifts – Marcus Aurelius
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf – Rabindranath Tagore
Health is the greatest possession, Contentment is the greatest treasure, Confidence is the greatest friend , Non-being is the greatest joy – Lao Tzu
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value – Desmond Tutu
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around – Henry David Thoreau
Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung – William Morris
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing – Audre Lorde
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears – John Locke
Moss From its brilliancy everything is illuminated – Guru Nanak
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver – William Bartram
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other – Mark Hopkins
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs – Robert Schumann
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them – Henry Norris Russell
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows – Francis of Assisi
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have – Vince Lombardi
With self-discipline most anything is possible – Theodore Roosevelt
Once I knew only darkness and stillness my life was without past or future but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living – Helen Keller
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future – Steve Jobs
Nothing is worth more than this day – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven – Henry Ward Beecher
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind – Marlee Matlin
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible – Arthur C Clarke
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes – cummings
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now – Napoleon Hill
One today is worth two tomorrows, Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind – Robert Louis Stevenson
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them – George Eliot
Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will – Pope Paul VI
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still – Phillips Brooks
Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig – Marcus Aurelius
We can change our lives, We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish – Tony Robbins
Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big – Peter Diamandis
We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage – Steve Sabol
I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that I found it so inspirational
Why not make myself cooler than I am? Stephen Colbert I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles – Marianne Vos
If we get out there trying to be inspirational, then we probably won’t be – Brendan Hunt
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all – Harry Seidler
The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives – Anita Sarkeesian
‘Star Wars’ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that It’s what they want – George Lucas
I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me – Rosie O’Donnell
People like the feeling of access that is very raw, unedited, and inspirational – Justin Kan
Lee’s great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management – Cheryl Crawford
I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center’s initiatives, HTC is an engine behind Houston’s and Texas’ continued growth – Walter O’Brien
God loves to help him who strives to help himself – Aeschylus
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in It’s the only space – Ben Okri
I celebrate myself, and sing myself – Walt Whitman
I love those who yearn for the impossible – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives – Andrew Shue
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies – all of the things that quite literally make us who we are – Steve Berry
To be an Instagram model, you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini – even if that is exactly what you are doing No, you need to caption these photos with an inspirational quote so that people will know that you are not just a butt, you’re a gosh dang philosopher – Kat Timpf
Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard
For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night – truly inspirational – Shawn Mendes
Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative – Donnie Yen
She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic – Taylor Kinney
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful – for science and the economy – and inspirational – Helen Sharman
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story – Om Puri
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational – David Chipperfield
I know that my life story is an inspirational one and one that can, hopefully, help others achieve goals in their own lives – Montel Vontavious Porter
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder – Richard Bach
Mankind is made great or little by its own will – Friedrich Schiller
I want to make this world perfect – Malala Yousafzai
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself – Joseph Campbell
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today – Queen Elizabeth II
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I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure But it was actually really important for me to go through that Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day – as long as you treat it that way – Skylar Grey
I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick – Snoop Dogg
When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches – Julian Edelman
‘Get along, go along’ is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash ’em in for your home state? No, I’d say we could ask for more than that from our senators – Molly Ivins
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens – David Cameron
If I did it because it was my ‘job,’ and I only did it to make money, I don’t think I’d still be doing it – Max Martin
The most inspirational person in my life has been my mother – Nicole Maines
You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life – Chris Brown
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea
Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family – Adriana Trigiani
Watching my family work so hard has been so inspirational, and I think I really got their work ethic – Chloe Kim
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