Inspirational Quotes

Plan your work and work your plan.
-Napolean Hill


Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
-William Ernest Henley


The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation. You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
-Barbara Sher


There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. There are two primary choices in life to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
-Dr. Denis Waitley


When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration. Destiny is no 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


The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
-Theodore Rubin


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt


Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Goethe


Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.
-Brian Tracy


Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
-William Jennings Bryant


Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
-Bria Tracy


The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but liking what one has to do.
-James M. Burrie


We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.
~Woodrow Wilson


The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much.
-Germain G. Glidden


I do not ask for any crown but that which all may win; nor try to conquer any world except the one within
-Louisa May Alcott


I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
-Philip Brookes


It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-W. Somerset Maugham


Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
-Aldous Leonard


Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down.
-William M. Winans


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T. S. Eliot


Anger blows out the candle of the mind.
-R. G. Ingersoll


Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
~Alfred Sheinwold


Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-General George S. Patton


You never fail until you stop trying.
-Florence Griffith Joyner


The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard


Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
-Jose Ortega y Gasset


Avoid competency traps. Do not stay only where you are good at things, Go out and be challenged.
-Andrew Creighton


Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
-Charles L. Allen


Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
-Evan Esar


Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
~Pete Seeger


I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
-Herbert Bayard Swope


Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-Leon J. Suenes


Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
~Rita Mae Brown


Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
-Ralph Blum


Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe