100 MOST INSPIRING QUOTES OF ALL TIME

1. You are your own motivation-  Bolsey
2.Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
all the difference. –Robert Frost
5. If you can dream it, you can do it. –Walt Disney
6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 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
8. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
9. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
10. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
11. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
12. 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
13. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –John Maxwell
14. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony
Robbins
15. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
16. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese
Proverb
17. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
18. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
19. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. –Napoleon Hill
20. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
21. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen
Covey
22. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –
Pablo Picasso
23. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –
Christopher Columbus
24. 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
25. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
26. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
27. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you
find out why. –Mark Twain
28. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
30. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why
we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
31. Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. –Pablo Picasso
32. 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
33. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –
Aristotle
34. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. –
Henry Ford
35. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph
Waldo Emerson
36. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –
Henry David Thoreau
37. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a
single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
38. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful
people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
39. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient
Indian Proverb
40. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
41. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
42. 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
43. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. –Christopher Reeve
44. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
45. 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
46. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
47. 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
48. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucious
49. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve
the world. –Anne Frank
50. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
51. The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a
lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi
52. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
53. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible. –Arthur C. Clarke
54. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the
necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third,
adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
55. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
56. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the
ground. –Unknown
57. Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in
love is done well. –Vincent Van Gogh
58. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
59. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
60. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney
61. 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
62. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities
become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
63. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of
freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. –Jim Morrison
64. 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
65. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
66. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of
failure. –Bill Cosby
67. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
68. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing
it. –Chinese Proverb
69. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
70. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
71. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
72. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
73. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
–Unknown
74. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for
themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  –Ann Landers
75. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and
half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
76. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
77. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. –Frank Zappa
78. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
79. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
–H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
80. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
81. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little
time to criticize others. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
82. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –
Dalai Lama
83. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
84. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
85. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin
Luther King Jr.
86. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
87. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
–Alice Walker
88. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
89. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make
it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
90. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly
Sills
91. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor
Roosevelt
92. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
93. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
94. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
95. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
96. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
97. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin
Franklin
98. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
99. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
100. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar
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THE LITTLE BOY

Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said:
“How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?”
The surgeon said, “I’m sorry. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t make it.”
Sally said, “Why do little children get cancer? Doesn’t God care any more? Where were you,
God, when my son needed you?”
The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time alone with your son? One of the nurses will be
out in a few minutes, before he’s transported to the university.”
Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good-bye to son. She ran her fingers
lovingly through his thick red curly hair.
“Would you like a lock of his hair?” the nurse asked.
Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of the boy’s hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it
to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to donate his body to the university for study.
He said it might help somebody else. “I said no at first, but Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be
using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.”
She went on, “My Jimmy had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone else. Always
wanting to help others if he could.”
Sally walked out of Children’s mercy Hospital for the last time, after spending most of the last
six months there. She put the bag with Jimmy’s belongings on the seat beside her in the car.
The drive home was difficult. It was even harder to enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy’s
belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started
placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had
always kept them. She laid down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, cried herself to
sleep.
It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Laying beside her on the bed was a folded letter.
The letter said:
“Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to miss me; but don’t think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving you,
just ’cause I’m not around to say I LOVE YOU. I will always love you, Mom, even more with
each day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to adopt a little boy
so you won’t be so lonely, that’s okay with me. He can have my room and old stuff to play
with. But, if you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn’t like the same things us
boys do. You’ll have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like, you know. Don’t be sad thinking
about me. This really is a neat place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and
showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything. The angels are so cool.
I love to watch them fly. And, you know what? Jesus doesn’t look like any of his pictures. Yet,
when I saw Him, I knew it was Him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD! And guess what, Mom?
I got to sit on God’s knee and talk to Him, like I was somebody important. That’s when I told
Him that I wanted to write you a letter, to tell you good-bye and everything. But I already knew
that wasn’t allowed. Well, you know what Mom? God handed me some paper and His own
personal pen to write you this letter. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going to
drop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you
asked Him ‘Where was He when I needed him?’ “God said He was in the same place with me,
as when His son Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His
children.
Oh, by the way, Mom, no one else can see what I’ve written except you. To everyone else this
is just a blank piece of paper. Isn’t that cool? I have to give God His pen back now. He needs
it to write some more names in the Book of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for
supper. I’m, sure the food will be great.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don’t hurt anymore. The cancer is all gone. I’m glad because I
couldn’t stand that pain anymore and God couldn’t stand to see me hurt so much, either.
That’s when He sent The Angel of Mercy to come get me. The Angel said I was a Special
Delivery! How about that?
Signed with Love from: God, Jesus & Me.”
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action
steps.”
“It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven’t been willing to try.”
“Little by little one walks far.”
“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”
“I certainly don’t regret my experiences because without them, I couldn’t imagine who or
where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles,
and attitude is everything!”
“Laugh often,
Dream big,
Reach for the stars!”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma
– which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s
opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your
heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything
else is secondary.”
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when
everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.”
“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.”
“You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far
you’ve been.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight
minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a
leader.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it
is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road
mapped out for you.”
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates
inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.”
“Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up
your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school,
join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade
you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

WEAKNESS OR STRENGTH

Sometimes our biggest weakness can become our biggest strength. Take, for example, the
story of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study Judo despite the fact that he had lost his
left arm in a devastating car accident.
The boy began lessons with an old Japanese Judo master. The boy was doing well, so he
couldn’t understand why, after three months of training the master had taught him only one
move.
“Sensei,” the boy finally said, “Shouldn’t I be learning more moves?”
“This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you’ll ever need to know.” – the
sensei replied.
Not quite understanding, but believing in his teacher, the boy kept training.
Several months later, the sensei took the boy to his first tournament. Surprising himself, the
boy easily won his first two matches. The third match proved to be more difficult, but after
some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to
win the match. Still amazed by his success, the boy was now in the finals.
This time, his opponent was bigger, stronger, and more experienced. For a while, the boy
appeared to be overmatched. Concerned that the boy might get hurt, the referee called a time-
out. He was about to stop the match when the sensei intervened.
“No,” the sensei insisted, “Let him continue.”
Soon after the match resumed, his opponent made a critical mistake: he dropped his guard.
Instantly, the boy used his move to pin him. The boy had won the match and the tournament.
He was the champion.
On the way home, the boy and sensei reviewed every move in each and every match. Then the
boy summoned the courage to ask what was really on his mind.
“Sensei, how did I win the tournament with only one move?”
“You won for two reasons,” the sensei answered. “First, you’ve almost mastered one of the
most difficult throws in all of judo. And second, the only known defense for that move is for
your opponent to grap your left arm.”
The boy’s biggest weakness had become his biggest strength.

BE CONTENT WITH YOUR LIFE.

Wonder if any of you ever had the feeling that life is bad, real bad,…and you wish you were in
another situation. Do you find that life seems to make things difficult for you, work sucks, life
sucks, everything seems to go wrong….
It was not until yesterday that I totally changed my views about life; after a conversation with
one of my friends.
He told me despite taking 2 jobs, and bringing back barely above 1K per month, he is happy as
he is. I wonder how he can be as happy as he is now, considering that he has to skimp his life
with the low pay to support a pair of old-age parents, in-laws, wife, 2 daughters and the many
bills of a household.
He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India……
That happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and was touring India after a
major setback. He said that right in front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian mother chopped
off her child’s right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the mother’s eyes, the scream of
the pain from the innocent 4 years old child haunted him until today. You may ask why did the
mother do so, has the child been naughty, was the child’s hand infected??
No, it was done for two simple words — to beg. The desperate mother deliberately caused the
child to be handicapped so that the child can go out to the streets to beg. I cannot accept
how this could happen, but it really did, just in another part of the world which I don’t see.
Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a small piece of bread he was eating half-way. And
almost instantly, flock of 5 or 6 children swamp towards this small piece of bread which was
then covered with sand, robbing of bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger.
Striken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him to the nearest bakery. He
arrived at two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries.
The owner is dumbfolded , but willing sold everything. He spent less than $100 to obtain
about 400 loaf of bread (this is less than $0.25/per loaf) and spend another $100 to get daily
necessities. Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread
and necessities to the children (mostly handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and
bows from these unfortunate. For the first time in life he wonder how people can give up their
dignity for a loaf of bread which cost less than $0.25. He began to ask himself how fortunate
he is as a Singaporean. How fortunate he to be able to have a complete body, have a job, have
a family, have the chance to complain what food is nice what isn’t, have the chance to be
clothed, have the many things that these people in front of him are deprived of…..
Now I begin to think and feel it, too. Was my life really that bad?
Perhaps….no,… it should not be bad at all….
What about you? Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who lost one
hand to beg on the streets.

THE LAW OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK..

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane
when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us!
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, really friendly. So I asked, “Why
did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.”
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage
(frustration, anger, and disappointment, etc.) . As their garbage piles up, they need a place to
dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.
Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their
garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life’s
too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so… love the people who treat you right &
pray for the ones who don’t. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you
take it!
Have a blessed, garbage-free day.