Friday, September 14, 2012

Inspirational Quotes

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. 
Helen Keller 


Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. 
Bill Copeland 



It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. 
Aristotle Onassis


Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. 
Robert Louis Stevenson 


Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. 
Joseph Campbell 


Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. 
Martin Luther


I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. 
Pope John XXIII 


Believe you can and you're halfway there. 
Theodore Roosevelt 


Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. 
Jim Rohn 


Change your thoughts and you change your world. 
Norman Vincent Peale 


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 
Rabindranath Tagore 


Hope is a waking dream. 
Aristotle 


I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' 
Muhammad Ali


Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! 
Audrey Hepburn 


God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. 
Jim Elliot 


A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. 
Joyce A. Myers 


Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. 
Nido Qubein 


Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. 
Thomas Merton 


Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. 
Andre Gide 


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. 
Buddha


Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. 
Democritus 


If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. 
Michael Jordan 


The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. 
Thomas Jefferson 


Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. 
Lao Tzu 


God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. 
Arthur Young 


Belief creates the actual fact. 
William James

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. 
Victor Hugo 


Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. 
Henry Ward Beecher 


Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. 
Babe Ruth 


The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. 
Leo Buscaglia 


We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. 
Ronald Reagan 


A place for everything, everything in its place. 
Benjamin Franklin 


In a gentle way, you can shake the world. 
Mahatma Gandhi 


Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. 
Swami Sivananda 


Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. 
Robert Louis Stevenson 


And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. 
Donald Cargill 


Give light and people will find the way. 
Ella Baker 


I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. 
Benjamin Disraeli 


Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 
William Ellery Channing 


The best way out is always through. 
Robert Frost


You change your life by changing your heart. 
Max Lucado 


Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. 
Friedrich Schiller 


Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? 
Fulton J. Sheen 


Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. 
Vincent McNabb 


For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. 
Wallis Simpson 


If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. 
Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men. 
Thomas Fuller 


There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. 
Edith Wharton 


Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. 
Napoleon Hill 


There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. 
Han Suyin 


On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. 
William Bartram 


Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. 
Marcus Aurelius 


Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. 
Henry Ward Beecher 


You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. 
Alan Watts 


Whoever is happy will make others happy too. 
Anne Frank 


Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. 
Bern Williams 


Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 


Enthusiasm moves the world. 
Arthur Balfour 


With self-discipline most anything is possible. 
Theodore Roosevelt 


Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. 
Warren Buffett


It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. 
Amelia Barr 


I pray God may preserve your health and life many years. 
Junipero Serra 


What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? 
Robert H. Schuller 


Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. 
Plato 


Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. 
Henry Norris Russell 


Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. 
Blaise Pascal

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. 
Abraham Joshua Heschel 


Happiness is the natural flower of duty. 
Phillips Brooks 


Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. 
Benjamin Disraeli 


It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. 
Amelia Barr 


I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. 
Henry Rollins 


The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. 
Emile Zola 


Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. 
Henry Ward Beecher 


Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. 
Albert Camus 


It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. 
Harry Emerson Fosdick 


When deeds speak, words are nothing. 
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! 
John Muir 


Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. 
Pope Paul VI 


The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. 
Mark Hopkins 


Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. 
Joseph Barber Lightfoot


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


The power of imagination makes us infinite. 
John Muir 


Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. 
Hosea Ballou 


It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. 
Joseph Wood Krutch 


We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. 
Tony Robbins 


You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. 
Richard Bach

Ideas shape the course of history. 
John Maynard Keynes 


What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. 
Plutarch 


The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. 
Richard Bach 


The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. 
Ray Manzarek 


As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. 
Charles Morgan 


Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. 
Pope Paul VI 


I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. 
Audre Lorde 


We convince by our presence. 
Walt Whitman 


Let each man exercise the art he knows. 
Aristophanes 


Mankind is made great or little by its own will. 
Friedrich Schiller 


Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. 
Jean Paul 


Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. 
Augustus Hare 


Think with your whole body. 
Taisen Deshimaru 


Our ideals are our better selves. 
Amos Bronson Alcott

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