Inspirational Quotes

You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

While you teach, you learn.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

When you have the choice between being right and being kind just choose kind.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Let me remember I am one with God. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while.

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.