Inspirational Quotes

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

If you believe in justice, surely you believe in the hereafter, because this world is not just.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to you. And Stay.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Storms make trees take deeper roots.