Quotes to inspire and reflect

It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

If you think you can, or you think you can't, you’re right!

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then you destroy yourself.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

I dream my painting and then paint my dream.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

The one without dreams is the one without wings.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot do.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

It's always fun to do the impossible.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Life is no `brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.