Inspirational Quotations

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

Showing 181 through 216 of 231 quotations in this category.

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

-Henry Van Dyke

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

-Shakespeare

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress."

-Bertrand Russell

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

-Appius Claudius

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

-Socrates

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."

-John Wayne

"The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us."

-Loren Eiseley

"Virtue is its own reward."

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity."

-The Kabbalah

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

-William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

"To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one."

-Jack Kornfield

"Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of angels."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

-Sir James Barrie

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

-Theodore Roosevelt

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

-Billie Jean King

"If you can't return a favor, pass it on."

-Louise Brown

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

-Orison Swett Marden

"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed."

-Srully Blotnick

"Take only memories; leave nothing but footprints."

-Chief Seattle

"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."

-Pythagoras

"A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it."

-unknown

"Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

-Oscar Wilde

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

-William James

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."

-Charles Luckman

"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day."

-unknown

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."

-Millard Fuller

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

-Robert South

"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows."

-Helen Keller

"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."

-James Taylor

"When you come right down to it, all you have is your self. Your self is a sun with a thousand rays in your belly. The rest is nothing."

-Pablo Picasso

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."

-Heraclitus

"There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this."

-Miyamoto Musashi

"A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe