Quotes on Inspirational

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.