Inspirational Quotes

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

~ Maria Shriver

We must learn from our struggles.

~ Roger Thurow

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

~ Eleanor H. Porter

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

~ James E. Faust

Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

~ L. Lionel Kendrick

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for.And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become.We don't give thanks because we're happy.We are happy because we give thanks.

~ Douglas Wood

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

~ Emil M. Cioran

The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the obstacles we face. He has shown the way to gain strength during our struggles. With His assistance, we have the ability to succeed. Listen to His words of counsel and comfort: 'Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.

~ L. Lionel Kendrick

If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

~ Sara Evans

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do. The Lord inspired Lehi to declare the fundamental truth, “Men are, that they might have joy.” That is a conditional statement: “they might have joy.” It is not conditional for the Lord. His intent is that each of us finds joy. It will not be conditional for you as you obey the commandments, have faith in the Master, and do the things that are necessary to have joy here on earth.

~ Richard G. Scott

Don't let them beat down your spirit and the spirit of your ideas go with reality and what seems natural to you ...transpire within this Universe and together we shall have a goal.

~ Auliq Ice

Holy faith, holy courage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, we only truly find ourselves when we have lost ourselves first.

~ Rico Alejandro Fenix

I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

~ Tom Winton

Prayers Are Free, But Change is going to cost you.

~ Prentiss Upmost Harris

You have to keep looking on the bright, because you'll never find anything in the dark.

~ Zack W. Van

When you are down, the only place to go is up. -Pontius Joseph

~ Pontius Joseph

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

~ Nihar Sharma

Some people simply REFUSE to be happy. If they were stuck in a tunnel you can show them the way out and give them a light, but they will just sit there complaining about how they got there. They are more willing to fight to STAY there instead of fighting to coming out. Okay it happened. Now what? Stop focusing so hard on how you got there, focus on how you're going to get out! Keep it moving!

~ Yvonne Pierre

The Universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.Stanley Kunitz

~ Shirley A. Moore

If you have WANNA, you can do ANYTHING!! - The Caterpillar That Wouldn't Change

~ Nancy S. Mure

It is a miracle if we can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do... Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

~ Shirley A. Moore

relationships would be without fault if we would just do what we would want our spouse to do in every situation.

~ Keivanni Ewers

Give unto your all everything, for you never know when it will be your last...

~ Nadège Richards

No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are.

~ Banani Ray

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

~ Dean Koontz

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

~ Timothy J. Keller

All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

~ Madeleine L'engle

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

~ Iain Banks

It's not time that is passing by after all, it's you and I

~ Karan Bajaj

When you are accepting something as truth, make sure that it feels good for you. Otherwise, you are accepting someone else's truth and it doesn't fit into your vibration. If you stay true to your vibrations you're making the correct choice for you.

~ Nanette Mathews

Think about what you think about is much more than a clever grouping of words. It’s largely the difference between maximized and unrealized potential.

~ B. Tom Hunsaker

If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may prevent you from facing many problems that have hurt people who have never learned it.The truth is simply this:No one owes you anything.

~ Harry Browne

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from your mindset.

~ Debasish Mridha

My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (love love) 'Cause honsetly the truth is that you know I'm never leaving, 'cause your my angel sent from above. (bove bove) Me and you can do no wrong. My money is yours give you a lil more 'cause I love ya, love ya. With me girl is where you belong...-Love Me

~ Justin Bieber

I always reminded myself that this wasn't exactly where I was meant to be, but pit stops are okay on the road of life, aren't they?

~ Lena Dunham

Even though I approached girls relentlessly, I wasn't really approachable myself.

~ John Duover

A #GIRLBOSS is someone who's in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

~ Sophia Amoruso

He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom --he chuckled-- he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.

~ Rick Riordan