Inspirational Quotes

Happiness is not a destination but the journey itself.

~ Debasish Mridha

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

~ Jay-Z

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

~ Debasish Mridha

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.

~ Thomas O'malley

Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you.

~ Alexa Anderson

So walk, or run if you can to your dreams. It doesn't matter if it's far or near. You can pause along the way but never stop, OK? Then hug it when you finally meet it! Embrace the moment. Love it and never let it go. Hold its opportunities and kiss its lessons with full of sincerity. Remember every moment of it - specially - the journey. It is what matters most.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Life takes up one long, winding road to fulfill its seemingly endless journey, and when we find ourselves stumble upon forks in the road, we choose wisely.

~ Amani Abbas

It’s YOUR journey. Ask yourself who you are, where you want to go, and how you’d like to get there. Graciously accept advice from everyone, but don’t look left and right and wonder why you’re not taking the path of your peers. Enjoy the path you’re on and make the most of it. Carpe College!

~ Michael Metzler

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

~ Kyle Schmalenberg

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

~ Paulo Coelho

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

~ Paul David Tripp

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin, the second is never to finish.

~ Don Roff

There is beauty in all we know and beauty in all we don't know. Our journey is to love it all.

~ Thomas Warfield

There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth, that I am the creator of my story. I choose what type of person I will be and what type of impact I will leave on others. I will never choose the destructive path of self and outward victimization again.

~ Steve Maraboli

I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.

~ Nora Roberts

Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.

~ Matthew Kelly

You are only in control of your choices.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We're shaped by our choices.

~ Sarah Dalton

(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.

~ Jay Alton

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Everything has an advantage and disadvantage but, choose an option that will bring you back to the track. Even if you see a poor man on the street choose an option that will left you up, but don't just choose, apply action.

~ Ben Bereng

What matters isn't what you are, it's who you are, right now, in this moment. What matters are the choices we make. That's what defines us. Nothing else.

~ Nicholas Kaufmann

If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen in love with the second.

~ Johnny Depp

People often say that abortion is a woman's choice, and they're right;they choose life the moment they have sex.

~ Preston Wagner

In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.

~ Ryan Lilly

We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.

~ Epiphana Lewis

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

~ C.m. Stunich

Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.

~ Xavier Rosseel

It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor.

~ Rhiannon Held Silver

Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.

~ Steve Maraboli

The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That’s all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.

~ Michele Bardsley

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black, and that has made all the difference.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Choose to do more than just exist, choose to live.

~ Steve Maraboli

Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

~ Lysa Terkeurst