Quotes to Inspire the Spirit
Success & Failure
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Unknown
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
"It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket."
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."
William A Ward
"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
"There are three kinds of people in this world: the wills, the won'ts, and the can'ts. The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything."
Eclectic Magazine
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Einstein
Love & Kindness
"...people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou
"The more you judge, the less you love."
Honoré de Balzac
"Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better."
William Shakespeare
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
Dreams
"Make the most of you because that is all there is of you."
"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."
"Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake."
"It may be those who do most, dream most."
Stephen Leacock
"Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today."
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
Courage
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"It is difficulties that show what men are."
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."
Ellen Burnstyn
"All we are is the result of what we have thought."
Buddha
Discoveries
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the only one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but rather, "Hmm... that’s funny..."."
Adventures
"Once a year, go some place you've never been."
Dali Lama
Letting Go
"the more you reason the less you create."
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."
"… In that moment of emptiness, the mind is open to a new possibility."
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
Change
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Change is not made without inconvenience."
"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it."
"If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it."
Ashleigh Brilliant
