Inspirational Quotes

If you can’t believe in miracles, then believe in yourself. When you want something bad enough, let that drive push you to make it happen. Sometimes you’ll run into brick walls that are put there to test you. Find a way around them and stay focused on your dream. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

~ Isabel Lopez

With time and perspective we recognize that such problems in life do come for a purpose, if only to allow the one who faces such despair to be convinced that he really does need divine strength beyond himself, that she really does need the offer of heaven’s hand. Those who feel no need for mercy usually never seek it and almost never bestow it. Those who have never had a heartache or a weakness or felt lonely or forsaken never have had to cry unto heaven for relief of such personal pain. Surely it is better to find the goodness of God and the grace of Christ, even at the price of despair, than to risk living our lives in a moral or material complacency that has never felt any need for faith or forgiveness, any need for redemption or relief.

~ Jeffery R. Holland

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.

~ Ally Carter

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

~ Laurence J. Peter

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

~ Thomas Merton

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

~ Margaret Atwood

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

~ Donzella Michele Malone

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

~ Criss Jami

Convictions are prisons.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.

~ Salman Aditya

But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am.

~ P.c. Cast

Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.

~ Robert M. Drake

Concentration attracts luck factor.

~ Amit Ray

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

~ C.s. Lewis

It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.

~ Steve Maraboli

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

~ Cassandra Clare

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

~ Charles Bukowski

I will not die an unlived life.I will not live in fearof falling or catching fire.I choose to inhabit my days,to allow my living to open me,to make me less afraid,more accessible;to loosen my heartuntil it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.I choose to risk my significance,to live so that which came to me as seedgoes to the next as blossom,and that which came to me as blossom,goes on as fruit.

~ Dawna Markova

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

~ Bill Watterson

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

~ Joyce Meyer

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

~ Walter Mosley

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

~ Christopher Pike

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

~ Jane Clayson Johnson

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

~ Anne Mccaffrey

Fear is a natural emotion in life, but you cannot let it dictate your actions. When you act out of fear, you will only meet failure. But act out of determination to conquer that fear, and you will succeed at anything. Maybe not the first time, or the second or third, but eventually—as long as you keep trying—you can conquer your fears and succeed.

~ Tiana Dalichov

I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

~ Courtney Love

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

~ Nina Lacour

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

~ Richard Bach

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

~ Morrie Schwartz

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

~ Nelson Mandela

One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself made clear sense. And I add, Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

~ Bell Hooks

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

~ William Faulkner