What are your favorite inspirational quotes?

Question

What are your favorite inspirational quotes?

Answer 1

If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it than I know I can achieve it-Unknown

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." -Malcolm X

Answer 2

Forgive, and you shall be forgiven; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened.

                 -- Jesus, I think quote is from the Gospel According to St. Matthew

You are the salt of the earth -- you are the light of the world.

                 -- Jesus, ibid

Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on.

                   -- Old American Civil Rights Song

Dare to struggle, dare to win

                  -- Radical slogan from 1960s, attributed to Mao Zhe Dong

Speak truth to power.

     -- Old Quaker maxim

Answer 3

"You know when you're in love when you cant fall asleep because realty is finally better than your dreams..." -Dr. Seuss

Answer 4

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.' Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection.” – Mother Teresa

“People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.

Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.

Think big anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack if you help them.

Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you've got anyway.” – Mother Teresa (*Please note that this passage, also known as  'The Paradoxical Commandments'  is often attributed to Bishop Abel Muzorewa or to Dr. Kent M. Keith)

Answer 5

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.  (Robert Brault)

:) that makes me laugh. Seriously....

Im not sure if these qualify as inspirational but they're somewhere along those lines:

"Name the greatest of all inventors.  Accident."  (Mark Twain)

"Failure is an event, never a person."  (William D. Brown)

"I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"  (Thomas Edison)

"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday." (unknown)

"If things go wrong, don't go with them." (Roger Babson)

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."  (Glenn Turner)

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." (Toni Morrison)

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."  (Peter Drucker)

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."  (Swedish Proverb)

Hope i helped!!! :)

Answer 6

To the world u may be one person but to one person, u may be the world.......

Answer 7

It's better to be warm and comfortable than cold and uncomfortable. (not in the literal sense)

Answer 8

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.



"The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."

Winston Churchill is responsible for those quotes and many more. check out Churchill quotes if you are looking for inspiration.

Answer 9

i love quotegarden.com --they have quotes on EVERYTHING. try it =)

Answer 10

Einstein had some amazing quotes:

# "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

# "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

# "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

# "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/Ei...