Inspirational Quotes

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best things, and no good thing ever dies.
Shawshank Redemption

I have learned that success is to be mearsured. Not so much by the position that one has reached in life, but by the obstacles which they have overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Once you have experienced excellence, you will never again be content with mediocrity.
Thomas S. Monson

My mother said to me, 'if you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr

If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And counting find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard;
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went-
Then you may count that day well spent.
George Elliot

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake (Auguries of Innocence)

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing, while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beatiful and good, And we must hunger for them.
George Elliot

Steep thyself a bowl of summertime.
Vergil

My imperfections and my failures are as much a gift from God as my talents and successes are. I lay them both at His feet.
Mahatma Gandhi

I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in risign up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Goethe