Thoughts of Inspirational Quotes in English Sayings

Sweet bird that shunn’st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy ! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among. I woo, to hear thy even song.

- Milton

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover.

- Mark Twain

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

The moment we repent and ask God for forgiveness for our lapse, we are purged of our sin and new life begins for us. Repentance is an essential prerequisite of prayer.

- Mahatma Gandhi

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever knew.

- Thomas Wolfe

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

- Thomas Jefferson

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

- Aristotle

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

- John Lennon

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning but by understanding what we learn.

- Joseph Whitney Download or Share Images

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

- A Quotation From Steve Jobs Download or Share Images

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

- Thoughts from Ray Kroc Download or Share Images

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

- Woody Allen Download or Share Images

The mind is everything. What you think you become. 

- Buddha Download or Share Images

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

- Chinese Proverb Download or Share Images

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

- Lao Tzu Download or Share Images

An unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates Download or Share Images

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

- Vince Lombardi Download or Share Images

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

- Stephen Covey Download or Share Images

I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.

- Pablo Picasso Download or Share Images

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. Download or Share Images

Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study.

- Francis Bacon Download or Share Images

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

- Benjamin Franklin Download or Share Images

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

- Bill Cosby Download or Share Images

No one can give you your goals. No one can dig for you. This is your journey.

- Warren Philip Gates Download or Share Images

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

- Chinese Proverb

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

- George Addair

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

- Suetonius

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

- R.W. Emerson

Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can.

- Arthur Ashe

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

The optimist sees the doughnut, The pessimist, the hole.

- McL. Wilson

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.

- Confucius

A truth which is told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.

- William Blake

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

- Lao Tzu

Men of talent are men for occasions.

- William Hazlitt

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

- Nelson Mandela

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

- Francis Bacon

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspiraional Quotation

Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions.

- Dalai Lama

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

- Sheryl Sandberg

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

- Sir Claus Moser

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

- G.K. Nielson

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

- Holmes

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

- Emerson

Idleness, which is the wellspring and root of all nice.

- Thomas Bacon

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.

- English Proverb

Right action cannot come out of nothing, it must be preceded by thought.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

- Latin Proverb

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

- Joe Clark

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

- Lao Tzu

If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain.

- Edward Young

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

- Bertrand Russell

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of science.

- R.W. Emerson

Pride changes angels into devils, humility makes man into angels.

- St. Augustine

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

- Oscar Wilde

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

- James Matthew Barrie

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

- Roger Staubach

 It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- George Eliot

You become what you believe.

- Oprah Winfrey

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

- Italian Proverb

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

- Vincent van Gogh

Who fears to attend takes the first step to please.

- Cibber

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.

- Sigmund Freud

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

- Unknown

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

- Cicero

Man is the highest animal. Indeed it is intelligence that separates man from the other animals.

- J.L. Nehru

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

- Horace *

Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams. 

- Brad Sugars

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

- Dalai Lama

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

- Prescott

A beautiful diamond asks to be viewed from many angles, shining in the light. 

- Clare Josa

You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

Dream big and dare to fail.

- Norman Vaughan

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

- John Wooden

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

When ordinary people decide to step out and be part of something big, that’s when they become extraordinary.

- Brett Harris

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

- Teddy Roosevelt

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

- Tony Robbins

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

- Gloria Steinem

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

- Steve Jobs

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

- Dudley Field Malone

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

- Albert Einstein

We become what we think about.

- Earl Nightingale Download or Share

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

- W. Clement Stone

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

- Dennis P. Kimbro

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

- Albert Einstein Download or Share

Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

Kevin Kruse

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Wayne Gretzky

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

- Napoleon Hill

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

- William James

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

Henry Ford

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'

- Sydney Harris

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Amelia Earhart Download or Share

Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being.

Kevin Kruse Download or Share

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

Robert Frost Download or Share

Unrighteous deeds gradually undermine the very foundations of happiness.

- Swami Dayanand Download or Share

We cannot change anything until we accept it.

- Carl Gustav Jung

What is an intelligent man ? A man who enters with case and completeness into the spirit of things and the intention of persons, and who arrives at an end by the shortest route.

- Frederic Amiel

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

- Mahatma Gandhi

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

- Florence Nightingale

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

- Alice Walker

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

- Ouida

The joy of life is variety, the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

- Samuel Johnson

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

- Pablo Picasso

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Christopher Columbus

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

- Winston Churchill

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than se knows.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only sensible ends of literature are first, the pleasurable toil of writing, second, the gratification of one’s family and friends, and lastly, the solid cash.

- Hawthorne

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

- Jim Rohn

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

- Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best revenge is massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

An intelligent man never snubs anybody.

- Vauvenargues

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

Power is essentially a moral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil.

- Robert Greene

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

- Aristotle

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.

- Jesus

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

- Elbert Hubbard

Talent is developed in retirement : character is formed in the rush of the world.

- Goethe

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riches amassed in haste will diminish, but those collected by little and little will multiply.

- Goethe

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

If not us, who? If not now, when?

- John F. Kennedy

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. 

- Booker T. Washington

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.

- Ancient Indian Proverb

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

- Theodore Roosevelt

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

- Anthony Robbins

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

- Jack Canfield

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Phyllis Diller

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

- Plato

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

- Erma Bombeck

Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thous shalt progress.

- Maimonides

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

- Carl Bard

Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not.

- George Bernard Shaw

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

- Arthur C. Clarke

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

- D.H. Lawrence

Speak less than you know; have more than you show.

- William Shakespeare

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Anne Frank

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.

- Unknown

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

- Marie Curie

Every noble work is at first impossible.

- Thomas Carlyle

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

- Les Brown

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

- Booker T. Washington

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

- Erica Jong

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

- Jamie Paolinetti

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

- Muhammad Ali

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.

- Larry Winget

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

- Edmund Burke

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

- Erica Jong

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

- Bob Dylan

Having a specific meaning and purpose in your life helps to encourage you towards living a fulfilling and inspired life.

- Vic Johnson

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. 

- Ann Landers

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

- Abigail Van Buren

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

- Farrah Gray

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

- Joshua J. Marine

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.

- Joseph Epstein

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at.

- Jesse Owens

Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance.

-Sir Claus Moser

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways.   

-Wayne W. Dyer

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

- Rosa Parks

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

- Stephen Covey

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

- Charles Sumner

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

- Mae Jemison

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

- Beverly Sills

Success isn't easy, and that's a good thing - at least in business. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it and your competition would be outrageous!

- David Fairweather

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

- Grandma Moses

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

We become what we think about.

- Earl Nightingale

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

- Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

- Norman Vincent Peale

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world “This was a man !’

- Shakespeare

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

- Benjamin Franklin

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.

- Albert Einstein

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”

- Inspirational Thought by Audrey Hepburn