Inspirational Words of Wisdom

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.
Swami Vivekananda

Your thoughts build your life.
Buddha

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Brown

A person can have the greatest idea in the world. But if the person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.
Gregory Berns

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Satchel Paige

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.
Unknown

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Anonymous

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Epictetus

A man has three names: the name he inherits, the name his parents give him, and the name he makes for himself.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Thomas Edison

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.
Dr. Robert Anthony

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in 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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
James Openhelm

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn Vos Savant