Quotes - Inspiration

Please find listed below an ever growing list of my favourite quotes, that I hope you will enjoy browsing through and using them on your creative projects too!

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not - Ralph Waldo Emerson

People only think a thing's worth believing in if it's hard to believe - Armiger Barclay

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking - David J. Schwartz

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand - Saint Augustine

Find your joy in the ordinary moments and experience how beautifully rich and rewarding life can be - Ralph Marston

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength - Henry Ward Beecher

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles - Claude Bristol

There is nothing permanent except change - Heraclitus

This above all: To thine own self be true - William Shakespeare

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness - Seneca

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing - Abraham Lincoln

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Great things are not done by impluse, but by a series of small things brought together - Vincent Van Gogh

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away - Air Arthur Helps

Only by great risks can great results be achieved - Xerxes

A hero is an ordinary invdivdual who finds the strength to perservere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles - Christopher Reeve

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward - Soren Kierkegaard

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to vistory - Arthur Golden

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is - Desiderius Erasmus

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way - John C. Maxwell

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes - Frank Lloyd Wright

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main - John Donne

Opportunity never arrives.  It's here!

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world - Don Millman

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less travelled by and that has made all the difference - Robert Frost

We might all be successful if we followed the advice we give the other fellow - Anonymous

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done - Elbert Hubbard

The secret to success in any human endeavour is total concentration - Kurt Vonnegut

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true - James Allen

Opportunities multiply as they are seized - Sun Tzu

If it were easy, it would have been done before - Jeanne Yaeger

Nothing is worth more than this day - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings - Samuel Johnson

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it - Stevie Wonder

The most wasted of all days is the day one did not laugh - Nicolas Chamfort

Climb high. Climb far. Your goal the sky. Your aim the star - Anonymous

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths your have, what you can accomplish - Cecil M. Springer

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate - Oprah Winfrey

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation detemines what you do. Attitude detemines how well you do it - Lou Holtz

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another - Helen Keller

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

He who would leap high must take a long run - Danish Proverb

May you live all the days of your life - Jonathan Swift