Simple Inspirational Quotes
Inspirations for Business and Life
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." ~ Saul Bellow
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write." ~ Saul Bellow
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things." ~ Mother Teresa
"Only people who believe in themselves generate believers." ~ Theodore Levitt
"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." ~ Martina Narration
"Everything begins with an idea." ~ Earl Nightingale
"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." ~ Earl Nightingale
"To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." ~ Earl Nightingale
"The only people who never fail are those who never try." ~ Ilka Chase
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." ~ Charles Darwin
"Failure. The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself." ~ Elbert Hubbard
"Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them ."~ Anthony Haden-Guest
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." ~ Anais Nin
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." ~ Dalai Lama
"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens." ~ Pema Chodron
"Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it." ~ Douglas Coupland
"Life is trying things to see if they work." ~ Ray Bradbury
"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." ~ Katharine Hepburn
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." ~ John Maynard Keynes
"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." ~ Jack London
"When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army." ~ Honore de Balzac
"What happens to beasts will happen to man. All things are connected. If the great beasts are gone men would surely die of a great loneliness of spirit." ~ Chief Seattle, 1884
"Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter." ~ D.H. Mondfleur
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." ~ Will Rogers
"My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play. "~ Tiger Woods
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." ~ Victor Hugo
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ~ Alexander Hamilton"
"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think." ~ Dale Carnegie
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~ T.S. Eliot
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy." ~ Richard Halloway
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." ~ E. E. Cummings
"When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on." ~ Franklin D Roosevelt
"Looking back and evaluating is important. Your own achievement is one of your best inspirations." ~ Gelek Rimpoche
"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." ~ Herbert Hoover
"Everyone in the world will tell you, "No, it can't be done." Every time I hear that, I know I'm close to success." ~ Michael Flatley
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable ."~ Clifton Fadiman
"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." ~ Benjamin Jowet
"Do or Do Not. There is No Try." ~ Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Fourtune favors the prepared mind." ~ Louis Pasteur
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." ~ John Maxwell
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
"Lives are like rivers… eventually go where they must…. not where we want them to." ~ Richard Russo (Empire Falls)
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." ~ James F. Byrnes
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. ~ Niels Bohr