Inspirational Quotes

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ~ Denis Waitely

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

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

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

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ~Robert H. Schuller

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine. ~Neil Armstrong

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

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

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. ~Vince Lombardi

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. ~Maxwell Maltz

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~Mark Twain

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~e. e. cummings

Either you run the day or the day runs you. ~Jim Rohn

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

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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. ~Robert H. Schuller

Do your work with your whole heart. There's so little competition. ~Elbert Hubbard

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ~Nelson Mandela

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ~Booker T. Washington

I dwell in possibility. ~Emily Dickinson

It always seems impossible until it's done. ~Nelson Mandela

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~Winston Churchill

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

"If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place." ~Nora Roberts

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind." ~Dr. Seuss

"Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination." ~James Arthur Ray

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." ~Mae West

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

~Harvey Fierstein

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become." ~Steve Jobs

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ~Paulo Coelho

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~Robert Brault

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ~Maya Angelou

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." ~Albert Einstein

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." ~Walter Elliot