Inspirational Quotes

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people.

~ C. Joybell C.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

~ Hafiz

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

~ Natsuki Takaya

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

~ Walt Whitman

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

~ Oscar Wilde

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

~ Sophie Kinsella

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

~ Steve Maraboli

Done is better than perfect.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

~ Socrates

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

~ Robert M. Drake

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

~ Douglas Coupland

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

~ Randy Pausch

Step follows step,Hope follows Courage,Set your face towards danger,Set your heart on victory.

~ Gail Carson Levine

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

~ Betty Smith

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

~ Ronald Reagan

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

~ Abraham Verghese

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

~ Henry Ford

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

~ Anne Lamott

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

~ Konstantin Stanislavski

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

~ J.k. Rowling

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

~ John Lubbock

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

~ Marilyn Monroe

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

~ Bruce Lee

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

~ Jon Krakauer

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

~ Thomas Jefferson

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Do your best and let God do the rest.

~ Ben Carson

Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.

~ Santosh Kalwar

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

~ Cynthia Kersey

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

~ Thomas Bernhard

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

~ Thomas S. Monson