Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

inspirational

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 11 wisdom & wit from William Ellery Channing

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. 8 more sayings from Hosea Ballou

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. 70 more sayings from Thomas Jefferson

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! 13 sayings from John Muir

The power of imagination makes us infinite. 13 thoughts from John Muir

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. 6 quotes from Emile Zola

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. 7 thoughts from Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. 41 more views from Marcus Aurelius

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Change your thoughts and you change your world. 11 quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

We convince by our presence. 30 quotes from Walt Whitman

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! 14 quotes from Audrey Hepburn

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. 6 more quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick

Ideas shape the course of history. 10 other views from John Maynard Keynes

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. 31 other views from Helen Keller

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. 58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. 57 views from Blaise Pascal

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. 58 more quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Enthusiasm moves the world. 3 sayings from Arthur Balfour

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. 7 other sayings from Pope Paul VI

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. 2 thoughts from Arthur Young

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. 7 views from Swami Sivananda

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help. 7 other quotes from Pope Paul VI

Believe you can and you're halfway there. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. 5 other views from Jim Elliot

With self-discipline most anything is possible. 36 thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. 28 sayings from Napoleon Hill

Our ideals are our better selves. 13 quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott

Mankind is made great or little by its own will. 29 other views from Friedrich Schiller

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. 7 wisdom & wit from Joseph Wood Krutch

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. 9 views from Pope John XXIII

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. 29 more sayings from Friedrich Schiller

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. 39 views from Robert Louis Stevenson

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. 32 more quotes from Martin Luther

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. 39 views from Robert Louis Stevenson

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. 22 quotes from Andre Gide

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. 7 more views from Phillips Brooks

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. 75 sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. 16 thoughts from Alan Watts

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. 6 other thoughts from Edith Wharton

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. 17 wisdom & wit from Plutarch

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. 4 other thoughts from Abraham Joshua Heschel

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

A place for everything, everything in its place. 96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. 6 quotes from Aristotle Onassis

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. 2 quotes from Charles Morgan

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. 45 views from Thomas Fuller

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. 5 views from Zane Grey

Belief creates the actual fact. 40 wisdom & wit from William James

Hope is a waking dream. 75 quotes from Aristotle

Great hopes make great men. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. 12 wisdom & wit from Thomas Merton

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. 6 views from Babe Ruth

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. 9 quotes from Audre Lorde

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. 5 more quotes from Augustus Hare

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. 18 other quotes from Joseph Campbell

The best way out is always through. 50 more views from Robert Frost

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. 5 quotes from Amelia Barr

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. 5 other quotes from Amelia Barr

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. 18 quotes from Jean Paul