Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

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

Donald Cargill

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

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

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

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

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

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

Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker

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

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

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

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

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

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

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

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

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

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

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

Think with your whole body.
Taisen Deshimaru

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado

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

Top 50 Inspirational Quotes For Action

Top 50 Inspirational Quotes For Action

"The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
- William James

"the naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie."
- Ann Landers

"The internet is an audience of one, a million times over."
- Peter Guber

" Ignorance is not bliss – it’s oblivion."
- Philip Wilie

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."
-Maya Angelou

"We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong."
- Bill Vaughn

"Why wait to be memorable?"
- Anthony Robbins

"The impossible is often the untried."
- Jim Goodwin

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
- Henry Peter Brougham

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
- Victor Hugo

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as in playing a poor hand well."
- H.T. Leslie

"I have a dream."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Do not think of your faults, still less of others’ faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it."
- John Ruskin

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self."
- Aldous Huxley

"A sacred thing is timely silence, and better than any speech."
- Plutarch

"Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball."
- Billie Jean King

"Take what you learn and make a difference with it."
- Unknown

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
- Michelangelo

"Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know."
- Deepak Chopra

"One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things."
- Henry Miller

"That’s the way things come clear - all of a sudden. Then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along."
- Madeline L’Engle

"Only the inquiring mind solves problems."
- Edward Hodnett

"I think contentment the greatest wealth."
- George Shelley

"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well."
- Buddha

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- Robert G. Ingersoll

"Follow the grain in your own wood."
- Howard Thurman

"Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
- Shel Silverstein

"I’ll not listen to reason… Reason always means what someone else has got to say."
- Elizabeth Gaskell

"Out of intense complexities, intense implicities emerge."
- Winston Churchill

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
- Agnes Repplier

"One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try."
- Sophocles

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"They sicken of the calm, those who knew the storm."
- Dorothy Parker

"Strive for perfection in everything you do… Accept nothing as nearly right or good enough."
- Sir Frederick Henry Royce

"Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth."
- Norman Cousins

"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing."
- Alexander Woollcott

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."
- Anais Nin

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
- Horace Mann

"Emotion is created by motion."
- Unknown

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke

"Our greatest glory is not never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
- Will Rodgers

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

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Plato

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other."
- George Eliot

"We know what a person things not when they tell us what they are thinking, but by their actions."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s existence."
- Sue Atchley Ebaugh

"The universe if full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Philpotts

"Nobody can dim the light which shines from within."
- Maya Angelo

"A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success."
- Cullen Hightower