Quotes on Inspirational

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

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

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.