Inspirational Quotes

Things do not change, we change.

~ Henry David Thoreau

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems.

~ Arthur O'shaughnessy

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

~ Jon Krakauer

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

~ Ronald Reagan

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

~ Martin Luther

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

~ Kurt Cobain

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

~ Will Self

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

~ Stephen King

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

~ Malcolm X

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

~ Fred Rogers

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

~ Anaïs Nin

Maktub (It is written.)

~ Paulo Coelho

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

~ Benjamin Hoff

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

All great achievements require time.

~ Maya Angelou

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

~ Anne Frank

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

~ Charles Bukowski

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

~ Mark Twain

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

~ Muhammad Ali

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

~ Conan O'brien

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

~ Harry Truman

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

~ Joseph Campbell

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

~ William Golding

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.

~ Colleen Mccullough

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

~ Ronald Reagan

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

~ Pandora Poikilos

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

~ Samuel Beckett

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

~ Winston S. Churchill

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

~ Abraham Lincoln