Quotes to Inspire YOU

I live my life by quotes and I get my inspiration by others, not really one for the written word!! However I’m sure if you do like reading, one of these quotes below could/should/will inspire you to start a new journey.

Here are quotes to inspire you…

1. “Market what you DO not who YOU are.” -Danny de Hek
2. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa
3. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
4. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
5. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi
6. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” -Charles Swindoll
7. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” -Oprah Winfrey
8. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
9. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” -Jimmy Dean
10. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” -Audrey Hepburn
11. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown
13. “Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda
14. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill
15. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain
16. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” -Michael Jordan
17. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” -Albert Einstein
18. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey
19. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford
20. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
21. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
22. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle Onassis
23. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
24. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand
25. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh
26. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
27. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” -Dalai Lama
28. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
29. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” -Bob Dylan
30. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” -Leonardo da Vinci
31. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller
32. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon
33. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
35. “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.” -Plato
36. “Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou
37. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
38. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” -Plutarch
39. “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch

How about you did I miss any? Have you got any quotes that you could share? place them in below in the comment box.