What's your favorite inspiration quote?

Question

Here's my favorite, but I'm always looking for more.

The past is the past, we make out history now.

Answer 1

This is kind of long, but, I love it. I have it posted in my office at work.

I am strong because I am weak.

I am beautiful because I know my flaws.

I am a lover because I am a fighter.

I am fearless because I have been afraid.

I am wise because I have been foolish.

I can laugh because I've known sadness.

This just really hits home for me. It's inspiring for me, but, maybe not for you. However, I thought I'd share it with you. Hope you enjoy!  

Answer 2

Do not doubt that a small group of thoroughly committed people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Answer 3

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do

Answer 4

"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box"  By Betty Davis.  When I say this to myself, it reminds me that no matter what I'm doing, or how hard things may be, I'll always have the resourses to keep going!

Answer 5

Here are some of my favorites:

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

                                       ~ Alan Alda ~

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

                                     ~ William Feather ~

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

                                    ~ Malcolm S. Forbes ~

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

                                       ~ Erica Jong ~

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

                                      ~ Helen Keller ~

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

                                     ~ John F. Kennedy ~

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

                                  ~ Marilyn Moats Kennedy ~

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

                                     ~ Walter Lippmann ~

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much  that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

                                      ~ Trina Paulus ~

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

                                         ~ Pilpay ~

                                    

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

                                     ~ David Lee Roth ~

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

                                      ~ Frank Scully ~

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

                                        ~ Julia Soul ~

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

                                      ~ Alvin Toffler ~

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

                                    ~ Source Unknown ~

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

                                    ~ Source Unknown ~

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

                                     ~ Meredith West ~

Progress always involves risk\ you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

                                    ~ Frederick Wilcox ~

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Thomas Edison

Whether you think you can do a thing or not do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

                                       Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

                                       Napoleon Hill

As a man thinketh, so he is.

                                            The Bible

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

                                      ~ Robert Frost ~

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,

The saddest are these, it might have been!"

                   John Greenleaf Whittier