Simple Inspirational Quotes
Inspirations for Business and Life
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." ~ John Quincy Adams
"Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders." ~ Bob Moward
"I feel okay with uncertainty, since security is ultimately an illusion anyway. (Just as Wall Street)." ~ Ian MacKenzie
"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." ~ Oscar Wilde
"It is surprising how people will go to a distance for what they may have at home." ~ Samuel Johnson
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." ~ Alan Watts
"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand." ~ Confucius
"The realization of he passage of time is somehow made concrete through object, which outlive us." ~ Mark Dion
"I strive to create wonders out of mandane." ~ Mark Dion
"Never in the history the world has a culture been so based on stuff." ~ Mark Dion
"My son is now an 'entrepreneur'. That's what you're called when you don't have a job." ~ Ted Turner
"If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow." ~ Isaac Mophatlane
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." ~ Victoria Holt
Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most ~ Buddha
"Life is too short to be small." ~ Benjamin Disraeli
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." ~ Tom Stoppard
"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
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattle (author of Codependent No More)
"A Wise Man Chooses His Battles... A Fool's Battles Choose Him." ~ Unknown
" You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." ~ Jim Rohn
"The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion." ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." ~ Salvador Dali
"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." ~ Jim Rohn
"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." ~ Marianne Williamson
"Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it." ~ Marianne Williamson
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined." ~ Henry James
"The point is, I know I'm weird, but I never felt weird." ~ John Frusciante
"Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness." ~ William Lyons Phelps
"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century." ~ William Lyons Phelps
"I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget." ~ William Lyons Phelps
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
"If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
"People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
"After closing the doors that lead you nowhere, throw away the key! Because our tendency is to look back and regret." ~ Paulo Coelho
"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen." ~ Paulo Coelho
"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time." ~ Paulo Coelho
"It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission." ~ Grace Murray Hopper
"Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort." ~ Brian Tracy