Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

Don’t worry if you are not perfect. Nobody else is.. ~ Perfection Quote by Glowing Embers Team

“For my own part, my belief in the perfection of the Deity will not permit me to believe that a book so manifestly obscure, disorderly, and contradictory can be His work”
~Thomas Paine

“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
~ Angelique Arnauld

“If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.”
~Josh Billings

“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age”
~Albert Einstein

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ”
~Confucius, Analects

“I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
~Kahlil Gibran

“Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.”
~ J. Yahl

“The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.”
~Dante

“The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes”
~Haridas Chaudhuri

“Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.”
~Rosalynn Carter

“I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.”
~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)

“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.”
~Salvador Dalí

“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
~Oscar Wilde

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ” ~Henry van Dyke

“Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ”
~Chinese Proverb

“Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.”
~ Paul Acquasanta

You need the most inspiration and motivation to keep you going when you are facing adversity, but it is from within that the Motivation must come. ~ Glowing Embers Team

So, here are some adversity quotes that should help you get that inner inspiration when you face adversity.

“There is no education like adversity.”
~Disraeli

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
~Duke Ellington

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends”
~ John Churton Collins

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
~Winston Churchill

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

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ”
~Norman Vincent Peale

“Depression loses its power when fresh vision pierces the darkness.”
~Peter Sinclair

“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
~Jewish Proverb

“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
~James Buckham

“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
~Violeta Parra

“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
~ Thomas Carlyle

“Adversity is the first path to truth.” ~Lord Byron

“Bad is never good until worse happens.”
~Danish Proverb

“Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.”
~William Shakespeare

“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ”
~Francis Bacon

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~Anais Nin

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
~Andre Gide

“You won’t skid if you stay in a rut.”
~Kin Hubbard

“People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
~Winston Churchill

“The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all”
~Anonymous

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
~ William Shedd

“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
~Samuel Johnson

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
~Herodotus

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain

“To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.”
~Isaac Asimov

“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
~John F. Kennedy

“To eat an egg, you must break the shell.”
~Jamaican Proverb
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
~Strom Jameson

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
~George S. Patton

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
~Pierre Corneille

“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
~Wayne Gretzky

“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
~ Frederick Smith

“If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.”
~Erica Jong

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
~ Katherine Mansfield

Here are some Attitude quotes that have inspired me a lot.
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.”
~David Bailey

“Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.”
~ Unknown

“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.”
~Arthur Ashe

“Ability is what gives you the opportunity; belief is what gets you there. ”
~ Apollo

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
~Jimmy Dean

“I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
~ Mark Twain

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
~John Heywood

“Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.”
~Kathleen Turner

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.”
~Chinese proverb

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
~Scott Hamilton

Do you think that your job is too lowly, your business too small, “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
~Demosthenes

“Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.”
~Ella Williams

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your mind.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.”
~Lou Holtz

“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.”
~John Sladek

“The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times.”
~Patricia Hampl

“A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” ~Eric Hoffer

“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.”
~ George F. Burns

“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
~ Nicole Kidman,

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
~John Dewey

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
~John F. Kennedy

“The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.”
~Destin Figuier

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
~Albert Einstein

“One faces the future with one’s past.”
~Pearl S. Buck

“I have seen the future and it doesn’t work. ”
~Robert Fulford

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
~Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.”
~Robertson Davies,

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
~Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

“The future is always beginning now.” ~Mark Strand,

“Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind”
~Benjamin Franklin

“Tomorrow will give us something to think about”
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
~ Adolf Hitler

“And in today already walks tomorrow.” ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A compilation of some action quotes.

“Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.”
~Italian Proverb

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
~Annie Dillard

Something to inspire the ladies here, “If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
~Margaret Thatcher

“The shortest answer is doing.”
~Lord Herbert

“The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
~Robert Frost

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
~Benjamin Disraeli

“Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”
~Oscar Wilde

“Action is the antidote to despair.” ~Joan Baez

“When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.”
~Colleen C. Barrett

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” ~Baltasar Gracian

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
~Andrew Jackson (originally by Napoleon Bonaparte)

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
~Thomas Jefferson

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.”
~Edmund Burke

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
~Mohandas Gandhi

“The best way out of a problem is through it.” ~Author Unknown

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
~George Bernard Shaw

“If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. ” ~Henry J. Kaiser

” As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~John F. Kennedy

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living”
~Anais Nin

Trusting someone can really motivate him. If you don’t trust someone with responsibilities, he is never going to be able to do it.
Here are some trust quotes and sayings for inspiration.

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
~Booker T. Washington

“When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.”
~ Ed Howe

“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
~Barbra Streisand

Not really to do with inspiration or motivation, but this is one of my favorite quotes from the greek philosopher, Cicero, “Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.”

“How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown”
~Mary Renault

“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.”
~Henry L. Stimson

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
~George MacDonald

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.”
~L Bertsch

“A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.”
~Nanette Newman

“I can trust my friends. . . . These people force me to examine myself,”
~Cher

“When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.”
~ unknown

“Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.”
~ William Shakespeare

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
~Rita Mae Brown

“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them”
~ Camillo di Cavour

Some inspirational wise quotes and sayings.

“The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?”
~Oprah Winfrey

“What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.”
~The Buddha

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
~Chinese Proverb

“You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.”
~Chinese Proverb

“Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.”
~Albert Camus

” Do thy work in the peace of Yoga and, free from selfish desires, be not moved in success or in failure. Yoga is an evenness of mind, a peace that is ever the same.”
~Bhagavad Gita

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I’m very proud that I’m smart enough to get to the point.”
~Harry Truman

“While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.”
~Doug Horton

” No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less”
~Edgar Watson Howe

“All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.”
~Epictetus

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.”~
Leonardo Da Vinci

“Whatever you are be a good one.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”
~Woody Allen

“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.” ~William James

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ~Theodore Roosevelt