Inspirational Quotes

 

 

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot

 

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

 

Whatever you can do or dream you can,
begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and
power in it. Begin it now.
Goethe

 

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

T.S. Eliot

 

The greatest discovery of my generation is
that human beings can alter their lives by
altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

 

To be what we are, and to become what
we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

The ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of
challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

If the person you are talking to
doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that
he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
Pooh's Little Instruction Book

 

I cannot teach anybody anything,
I can only make them think.
Socrates

 

Know thyself.
Linnaeus

 

…be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves...
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
Ranier Maria Rilke

 

To know someone here or there
with whom you can feel there
is understanding in spite of
distances or thoughts expressed
that can make life a garden.
Goethe

 

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.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act
but a habit.

Aristotle

 

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 the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

 

…if we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev

 

Life always gets harder toward the summit -
the cold increases -
responsibility increases

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

When the fight begins within himself
A man is worth something

Robert Browning

 

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

Love conquers all.
Virgil

Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.
D.H. Lawrence

The best things in life aren’t things.
Art Buchwald

 

Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

 

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination;
do not become the slave of your model.
Vincent Van Gogh

 

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work,
from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse

 

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

 

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

 

Keep hope alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Life isn’t a matter of milestones,
but of moments.
Rose Kennedy

 

Knowing is not enough;
We must apply.
Willing is not enough;
We must do.
Goethe

 

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

 

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank

 

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

A man must not deny his manifest abilities,

for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather

 

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other,

on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

 

The greatest good you can do for another
is not just share your riches,
but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli

 

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates

 

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

 

The day a person becomes a cynic
is the day he loses his youth.
Marvin D. Levy

 

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

 

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Goethe

 

The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest Hemingway

 

The most important medicine is
tender love and care

Mother Teresa

 

He who asks is a fool for five minutes,

but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Old Chinese saying

 

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally,
in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness,
and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who,
out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving
only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much
greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

 

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

 

A friend knows the song in my heart

and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Unknown

 

Be kind, remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
T.H.Thompson

 

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Unknown

 

If you are pained by external things,
it is not they that disturb you, but your own
judgment of them. And it is in your power
to wipe out that judgment now.
Marcus Aurelius

 

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die

even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain

 

It is a curious thing in human experience but
to live through a period of stress and sorrow
with another person creates a bond which nothing
seems able to break

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

I wish they would only take me as I am.
Vincent Van Gogh

 

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
'Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.'
Horace

 

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist,

but in the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation

for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

 

Nurture your mind with inspirational thoughts.
Benjamin Disraeli

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

 

Ultimately the bond of all companionship,

whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde

 

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

 

Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare