inspirational quotes

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' -George Bernard Shaw

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
-Richard Bach (Illusions)

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. -Jesse Jackson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. -Maya Angelou

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. -Lewis Carroll

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw

The journey is the reward. -Chinese Proverb

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent. -President Dwight Eisenhower

Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible.
Patrick Snow, Author of 'Creating Your Own Destiny'

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. -Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Philosopher)

Thought is action in rehearsal. -Sigmund Freud

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. -Gerry Spence

The only way around is through. -Robert Frost

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. -Bill Clinton

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." -Abraham Lincoln

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