365 Best Inspirational Quotes by Kevin E. Kruse

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

–Farrah Gray

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

–Spencer Johnson

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

–Unknown

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

–Richard Branson

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

–Albert Einstein

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

–Carl Sandburg

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

–Joel Osteen

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

–Maria Robinson

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

–Tony Blair

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

–Buddha

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

–Teddy Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.

–Eleanor Roosevelt

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

–Pablo Picasso

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

–Sir Claus Moser

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

–Benjamin Franklin

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

–Rosa Parks

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

–Vincent van Gogh

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

–Sir John Lubbock

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

–Ernest Hemingway

Money, I can only gain or lose. But time I can only lose. So, I must spend it carefully.

–Unknown

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

–Ringo Starr

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

–Stephen R. Covey

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

–Alice Walker

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

–M. Scott Peck

There is no such thing as failure. You either succeed or learn.

–Kevin Kruse

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

–Christopher Columbus

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

–Lao Tzu

The death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100%.

–Patti Digh

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

–H. Jackson Brown

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

–Abigail Van Buren

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

–Latin Proverb

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

–George Eliot

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

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

–Henry David Thoreau

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

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year –and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade.

–Anthony Robbins

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

–Eleanor Roosevelt

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

–Attributed to Carl Bard

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

–Zig Ziglar

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove…but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. - Forest Witcraft

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles

Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thou shalt progress. - Maimonides

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lost. - Thomas Edison