Inspirational Quotations

These quotations offer inspiring and uplifting wisdom and will hopefully brighten your day.

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"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

-Buddha

"Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height."

-Buddha

"Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."

-Benjamin Franklin

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty."

-John D. Rockefeller

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind . . . let it be something good."

-unknown

"Dont cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

-unknown

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life."

-Bertrand Russell

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."

-John Ruskin

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."

-Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."

-Maria Mitchell

"If you find out how to make money at something you love doing, then you'll never have to work another day in your life."

-unknown

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

-Leonardo DaVinci

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."

-Marin Luther King, Jr.

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down."

-Kobi Yamada

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."

-Ziggy

"Begin to weave and God will give you the thread."

-German Proverb

"As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest."

-Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

-Ernest Hemingway

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

-Josh Billings

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

-Douglas Adams

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

-unknown

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

-Horace

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

-Epicurus

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

-Helen Keller

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

-Dale Carnegie

"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."

-Louis Pasteur

"One ship drives east and the other drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails and not the gales
Which tells us the way to go."

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Winds of Fate

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make."

-Aristotle

"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones."

-George Bernard Shaw

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

-Benedict Spinoza

"The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life."

-William James

"My country is the world and my religion is to do good."

-Thomas Paine

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

-Pablo Picasso