Inspiration Quotes

No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Is he [youth] not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

Stand by your principles; stand by your guns; and victory complete and permanent is sure at the last.

I hold if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

I am not wanting in the purpose, though I may fail in the strength, to maintain my freedom from bad influences. ... May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore ... I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country.

While I hold myself without mock modesty, the humblest of all individuals that have ever been elevated to the Presidency, I have a more difficult task to perform than any one of them.

I have often pondered over the dangers which were incurred by the men who assembled here, and framed and adopted that Declaration of Independence. I have pondered over the toils that were endured by the officers and soldiers of the army who achieved that Independence.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.