Inspirational Quotes
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Author unknown
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." -- James Russell Lowell
"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." - Christian Gellert
"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung to this day." - Rabindranath Tagore
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." -- Gail Sheehy
"You know, we can't get out of life alive! We can either die in the bleachers or die on the field. We might as well come down on the field and go for it!" - Les Brown
"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning." - Barbara Sher
"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go!'" -- Maya Angelou
"Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet." -- William Shakespeare
"First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying... and suddenly realize I forgot to live." - Author Unknown
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." -- Stephen Covey
"Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions." -- Ben Stein
"Dreams need people to champion them and act on their behalf. This wait and see attitude ignores another essential truth: dreams come with an expiration date. If we don't do something about them, they either wither or take up residence elsewhere." - Barbara Winters
"Follow your desire as long as you live; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit." - Ptah-hotep (c. 2600 B.C.)
"Opportunity stands beside you every moment, and one of its favorite disguises is that of obstacles." - Author Unknown
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." - Earl Nightingale
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson
"This book is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying." - Studs Terkel
"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
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie