Inspirational Words 

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
 

Put up in a place where it’s easy to see.

The cryptic admonishment T. T. T.

When you feel sometimes how slowly you climb.

It’s well to remember that Things Take Time.
Piet Hein

Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good
we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare

All that we are is the result of
What we have thought.
The mind is everything.
What we think, we become.
Buddha

Fear regret more than failure.
Taryn Rose

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Life's failures are stepping stones to success.

Unknown

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Mary Kay Ash

Leap and the net will appear.
Zen Saying

If you live your life afraid because you're afraid to live, then you live no life at all.
Unknown

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Publilius Syrus

Be not afraid of greatness
some men (people) are born great
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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

Inspiration...Is remembering the future.
©John Cahill

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his
dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
 

Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living
things, we will not ourselves find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment

and to become what he dreams of being.

Tully C. Knoles
 

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he
could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln
 

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect.

There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it.

There is someone who would miss you if you were gone.

There is a place that you alone can fill.

Jacob M. Braude

To laugh often and much:

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,

to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others,

to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child,

a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;

to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived.

This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Do or do not.  There is no try.

Yoda

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
 

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. 

It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible.
George Leonard

The first and most important step toward...success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Nelson Boswell
 

It's not the days in your life, but the life in your days that counts.
Brian White

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mary Kay Ash
 

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

The present moment is the only moment available to us,

and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.
Anne Frank
 

If you have nothing else to do,

look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve!

It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy.

George Matthew Adams

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities
simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands,

but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides,

and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

Progress always involves risk.

You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilcox

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Hanna More

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Johann Friedrich von Schiller
 

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. 

It is because we do not dare they are difficult.
Seneca

Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.

George P. Burnham
 

Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Goethe
 

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The art of being yourself at your best

is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself,

for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves

can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true,
there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a
little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie
 

There are no classes in life for beginners:

right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

You may never know what results come from your action.

But if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Gandhi

Don't limit yourself.

Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do.

You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
R. Buckminster Fuller

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.

Walt Disney

The thing always happens that you really believe in;

and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;

nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege
 

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can
work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those
acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up some place else.
Yogi Berra

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.

Jill McLemore

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses

with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Cicero

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Things usually turn out better than you think.

Von R Atkinson

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life.

But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first,

some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.

At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.

Happiness is the way.

So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one.

Happiness is a journey, not a destination...

Souza

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...

as in being able to remake ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain.
Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
Brian Tracy

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Buddha

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!

Sasha Azevedo

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

Helen Keller