Here are Inspirational Quotes which will serve as our souce of hope, motivation, inspiration and courage in our journey in life.

Life is an up and down ride. Sometimes we need a little help to get back on our feet. These inspirational quotes about life can help you to motivate yourself, see the brighter side of life, and live a good life.

LEADERSHIP

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” – John Maxwell

“Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, ‘I’ll get a bigger job, then I’ll learn how to be a leader.’ But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn’t a position, it’s a process.” – John Maxwell

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John Maxwell

“Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.” – John Maxwell

”The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell

”A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter

”If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch.” – Jesus Christ

“The real leader has no need to lead– he is content to point the way.” – Henry Miller

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” – Aristotle

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.” – General Douglas MacArthur

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” – Marian Anderson

“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.” – Eric Hoffer

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” – Ross Perot

TIME

“Life is like a taxi, the meter keeps a-tickin whether you are getting somewhere or standing still.” – Lou Erickso. This quote means that life is going to move whether you like it or not. You can take advantage of the time you have, or you can sit still and watch life go by.

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln It’s not the length of life, but the quality of life that matters.

A GOOD LIFE

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill Life is not about material possessions. We need to better the lives that are around us. This does not mean giving money or gifts, but by giving love and laughter. You need to enrich those who are around you.

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” – Anonymous The message of seizing the day is present. Many people waste their time by dreaming about the things that they will do. You need to take action, and turn your dreams into a reality.

It is not length of life, but depth of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson It does not matter how long you will leave. What matters most is the quality of your life.

RELATIONSHIP

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. – Swedish Proverb It’s great that we have someone with whom we can share our joys. We have someone by our side who will celebrate with us. We need someone who will help us carry our burdens as well.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. – Emily Kimbrough Failures are part and parcel of life. We cannot get rid of them. This is the reason that we need someone who will help and support us in facing trials and failures in life.

No road is long with good company. – Turkish Proverb When we have companions in life, we can face all challenges and trials easily.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. – Stephen R. Covey Unconditional love entails loving, accepting and understand the other despite his weaknesses and shortcomings.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott To love and be loved is the reason for living, and the greatest human need.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. – Archbishop Desmond Tutu Love is the essence of our existence. We cannot survive and live without love.

Love understands all languages. – Romanian Proverb Love is innate in every person. Love can be felt and experienced in any place and culture.

The entire law is summed up in a single command, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” – Galatians 5:14 Treat others the way you want to be treated. You cannot give what you don’t have. You can’t love a person without loving yourself.

SUCCESS

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. – Abraham Lincoln Success starts with a decision.

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway Man is created and destined for greatness.

To freely bloom – that is my definition of success. – Gerry Spence To be successful is to maximize one’s potentials and to give one’s best where he is planted.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein What matters is the character and integrity of a person.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded. – Michael Johnson Failures are stepping stones to success. We need to fail forward.

HAPPINESS

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others. – Chinese Proverb Share your happiness with others. Your happiness should not be the cause of misery of others.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim Don’t go far and search for happiness. Happiness can be found within you.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. – Anonymous Be content of what you have. Appreciate and be grateful for all the things that you have.

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. – Ray Lyman Wilbur Loving others will lead to happiness.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret B. Runbeck Happiness can be experience in every moment and experience you have in your life.

BEAUTY

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius Beauty is everywhere. We just have to open our eyes and recognize it.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison Beauty is beyond the physical appearance. It is the language of the soul.

Beauty is the gift of God. – Aristotle Beauty is a sacred treasure which connects us to the divine.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Outer beauty radiates from inner beauty.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is relative. It depends on the person seeing it.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart – Kahlil Gibran Beauty is beyond the external aspect of a person.

It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

“It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty” – Tolstoy Beauty and love are eternal gifts which are interrelated and interdependent.

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. Beauty is a product of joy.

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. – Christopher Morley It’s natural for man to appreciate and recognize beauty.

Beauty… is the shadow of God on the universe. – Gabriela Mistral God is the perfection and epitome of beauty.

FAILURE

Success is the proper utilization of failure. – Anonymous

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn

You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. – Anonymous

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. – Zig Ziglar

There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned – Mark Twain

Failures are stepping stones to success.

You haven’t failed until you quit trying. – Anonymous

Failure is an event, never a person. – William D. Brown

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

There is no failure except in no longer trying. – Elbert Hubbard

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. – Charles Horton Cooley

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. – Kenneth Boudling