Inspirational Quotes

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

~ Max Lucado

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.

~ Elie Wiesel

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all, neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble, I trust while I weep.

~ Charlotte Brontë

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

~ Jason Fried

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

~ Trina Paulus

I do like the world quite a lot.

~ Shannon Hale

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

~ C.s. Lewis

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

~ Paulo Coelho

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

~ John Cage

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there's always a first time for everything

~ Melissa De La Cruz

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

~ Francesca Lia Block

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

~ Josh Groban

In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

~ Maya Angelou

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

~ Socrates

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

~ Amit Ray

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

~ Tom Hiddleston

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

~ Robert H. Schuller

Truth builds trust.

~ Marilyn Suttle

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

~ John Keats

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

~ Robin S. Sharma

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

~ Steve Maraboli

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

~ Sharon Shinn

If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.

~ Alan Bradley

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

~ Terry Brooks

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

~ Henry David Thoreau

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

~ Wil Wheaton

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

~ C.s. Lewis

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

~ Alfred Brendel

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

~ Jodi Picoult

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

~ Gertrude Stein

I shut my eyes in order to see.

~ Paul Gauguin