Inspirational Quotes And Saying

Inspirational Quotes

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Out of difficulties grow miracles. Jean de la Bruyere

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

Short Inspirational Quotes

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

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn

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

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. Og Mandino

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. Steve Jobs

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. Paul Bryant

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. Earl Nightingale

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. Alan Alda

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way. Skylar Grey

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. Audrey Hepburn

If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. James E. Faust

Inspirational Quotes About Life

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. St. Jerome

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. Bradley Whitford

It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Rabindranath Tagore

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. Walter Elliot

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. Ralph Marston

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. Elbert Hubbard

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don Miguel Ruiz

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. Confucius

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. George Lucas

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Ted Turner

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. George Herbert

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. Dan Millman

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Oprah Winfrey

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sasha Cohen

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. Ken Venturi

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. Jim Rohn

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. Jim Rohn

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. Jim Rohn

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Jim Rohn

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. Jim Rohn

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. Jim Rohn

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. Jim Rohn

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. Jim Rohn

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace. Jim Rohn

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. Jim Rohn

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask? Jim Rohn

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. Jim Rohn

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. Jim Rohn

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. Jim Rohn

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter. Saint Jerome

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility. Albert Einstein

You have as much laughter as you have faith. Martin Luther

The brain is wider than the sky. Emily Dickinson

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot. Joe Vitale

Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were doing to do anyway. Robert Downey Jr

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. William Shakespeare

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn

Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best. John C. Maxwell

Great things never came from comfort zones. Neil Strauss

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. Sylvia Plath

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done. Thomas Jefferson

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things. Joe Namath

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. Ernest Hemingway

Your labor is your contribution to the miracle. Elizabeth Gilbert

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. Barack Obama

My message to you is simple, keep believing, keep marching, keep building, keep raising your voice. Barack Obama

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Kurt Vonnegut

At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished… it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better, it’s about what you’ve given back. Denzel Washington

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”. Jack Kerouac

If you think, then you will be prepared. If you are prepared, then you will have no worries. Li Ka Shing

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Henry Stanley Haskins

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. Horace

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Jack London

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest. Unknown

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald

From error to error one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud

The scariest moment is always just before you start. Stephen King

Every next level of your life will demand a different you.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. James Allen

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. Steve Jobs

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Jesus Christ

A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for. Albert Einstein

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. Les Brown

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. Jim Rohn

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. Peter

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

Not all those who wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien

Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R. Tolkien

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden

You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King Jr

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Miguel de Cervantes

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

All for one and one for all. Alexandre Dumas

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Henry Ford

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go. Jim Rohn

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

I exist as I am, that is enough. Walt Whitman

You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough. Naval Ravikant

Pain or love or danger makes you real again. Jack Kerouac

If you can imagine it, we can make it. John Dykstra

Either get busy living or get busy dying. Stephen King

You change the world by being yourself. Yoko Ono

The only way round is through. Robert Frost

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. Horace

We are our choices. Jean-Paul Sartre

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. Napoleon Hill

There is nothing you cannot have. There are no limitations. Unknown

Great things never came from comfort zones. Unknown

One day or day one. You decide. Unknown

Don’t just wait for inspiration. Become it. Unknown

I didn’t come this far, to only come this far. Unknown

Prove them wrong. Unknown

Don’t tell people your dreams. Show them. Unknown

You can be happy where you are. Joel Osteen

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels

They can because they think they can. Virgil

Fortune sides with him who dares. Virgil

Life begins on the other side of despair. Jean-Paul Sartre

Resist much, obey little. Walt Whitman

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

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. Jack Kerouac

And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman

Our true nationality is mankind. H. G. Wells

Paths are made by walking. Franz Kafka

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Miguel de Cervantes

Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly. Frida Kahlo

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. Unknown

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. Unknown

When you see something beautiful in someone, tell them. It may take a second to say, but for them it could last a life time. Unknown

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. E. Cummings

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. Dale Carnegie

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. Archilochus

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite. William Blake

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl

Breathe, it’s just a bad day, not a bad life. Unknown

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. Sigmund Freud

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. Terry Pratchett

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. Marcel Proust

Abandon yourself to the moment, and you will find every day new openings, new light, new insight. And those new insights will go on changing you. One day, suddenly you will see you are each moment new. Osho

You have to be able to tolerate what you don’t necessarily like so you can be free. Larry Flynt

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. William Faulkner

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sigmund Freud

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. Samuel Beckett

Inspirational Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T.S. Eliot

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. Charles Bukowski

Life has a way of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once. Paulo Coelho

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe

Embrace the glorious mess that you are. Elizabeth Gilbert

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I’ve found it!), but ‘That’s funny…’.

I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. Oscar Wilde Click to tweet

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Pratchett

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Wrinkles mean you laughed, grey hair means you care and scars mean you lived. Unknown

A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. Unknown

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Ambrose Bierce

If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent. Rich Cohen

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it. Edgar Allan Poe

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. Mark Twain

The only thing you can get in a hurry is trouble. Navjot Singh Sidhu

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain

Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. Jack London

It’s not bragging if you can back it up. Muhammad Ali

The wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. Franz Kafka

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

You are free, and that is why you are lost. Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

Unless you believe, you will not understand. Augustine of Hippo

You will always find an answer in the sound of water. Zhuangzi Click to tweet

You attract what you are, not what you want. Unknown

I focused so hard on what I wanted that I lost sight of what I deserved. Unknown

Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place. Unknown

Let it all go. See what stays.

Anything I come across that feels impossible, I probably need to take a second look. Joe Gebbia (Co-founder AirBnb)

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. Chuck Palahniuk

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. Dogen

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. Osho

You have to die a few times before you can really live. Charles Bukowski

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. Kin Hubbard

To find yourself, think for yourself. Socrates

You have to be odd to be number one. Dr. Seuss Click to tweet

My father used to say, “don’t raise your voice improve your argument”. Unknown

When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guild can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future. Unknown

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long. Johnny Depp

Don’t look back unless you’re planning to go that way. Unknown

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett

Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence. Jorge Luis Borges

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Buddha

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Stephen King

Saying nothing sometimes says the most. Emily Dickinson Click to tweet

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. John Milton

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. Michel de Montaigne

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. W.B. Yeats

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. Thomas Mann

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain

Please all, and you will please none. Aesop

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. Socrates Click to tweet

Life is the sum of all your choices. Albert Camus

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. Nicolas Chamfort

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London

My mission: to be so busy loving my life that I have no time for hate, regret, worry, fret, or fear. Unknown

Life is all about balance. You don’t always need to be getting stuff done. Sometimes it’s perfectly okay, and absolutely necessary, to shut down, kick back, and do nothing. Lori Deschene

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

If you’re afraid to die, you will not be able to live. James A. Baldwin

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson

An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Plutarch Click to tweet

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. Ovid

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. Alexandre Dumas

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. Norman Vincent Peale

Listening to your own heart, you will start moving in the right direction, without ever thinking of what is right and what is wrong. Osho

Listen to the new, go with the new. I know you are afraid. In spite of the fear, go with the new, and your life will become richer and richer and you will be able one day to release your imprisoned splendor. Osho

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. Billy Wilder

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Joel Osteen

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. Navjot Singh Sidhu

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Seneca

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote Click to tweet

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor Hugo

Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than your comfort zone. Unknown

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it. Unkwnon

Magic happens when you do not give up, even though you want to. The universe always falls in love with a stubborn heart. Unknown

We mature with damage, not with the years. Unknown

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

These are the days that must happen to you. Walt Whitman

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius

Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. John Steinbeck

You can only fight the way you practice. Miyamoto Musashi

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean-Paul Sartre

Inspirational Quotes

Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. Lewis Carroll Click to tweet

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

You do not write your life with words… You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. Patrick Ness

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. W. B. Yeats

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H. G. Wells

Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar

The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell. Unknown

Without rain nothing grows. Learn to embrace the storms of your life. Unknown

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mahatma Gandhi

There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. Tim Ferriss

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. Maxwell Maltz

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one. Navjot Singh Sidhu

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have. Norman Vincent Peale

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You have to be able to tolerate what you don’t necessarily like so you can be free. Larry Flynt

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. Unknown

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E. E. Cummings

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus Click to tweet

No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. Epictetus

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. Charles Bukowski

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. Unknown

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. E.E. Cummings

Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you. Unknown

Learn to say ‘no’ without explaining yourself. Unknown

Stay patient and trust your journey. Unknown

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile throught the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. Unknown

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. Coco Chanel

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. Marcus Aurelius

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe. Michael Korda

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Napoleon Hill

Act the part and you will become the part. William James Click to tweet

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. William James

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. Augustine of Hippo

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius

Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul. Walt Whitman

No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. Christian Nestell Bovee

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste. Lucille Ball

When you think you’re good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap. Kurt Russell

If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. Lao Tzu

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius

If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you. Maurice Saatchi

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it. Orison Swett Marden

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S. Truman

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. Maxwell Maltz

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. Napoleon Hill

Swallow your pride, you will not die, it’s not poison. Bob Dylan

He who sings scares away his woes. Miguel de Cervantes Click to tweet

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Seneca

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. Jack Kerouac

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. Sylvia Plath

Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

The best part about life? Every morning you have a new opportunity to become a happier version of yourself. Unknown

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. Unknown

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus Click to tweet

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Cicero

Don’t be in such a rush to figure everything out. Embrace the unknown and let your life surprise you.

If you seek tranquility, do less. Or do what’s essential – what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better. Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’ Marcus Aurelius

You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind – things that exist only there – and clear out space for yourself. Marcus Aurelius

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbell

I still remember the days I prayed for the things I have now. Unknown

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. Paramahansa Yogananda

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy. Paramahansa Yogananda

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. Carlos Santana

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Walt Whitman

There are two ways to be happy: change the situation, or change your mindset towards it. Unknown

Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go. Unknown

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness. Amber Riley

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Marvin Gaye

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. Leo Tolstoy

Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone. Gertrude Stein

There is a quiet place where no one disturbs you. Marlene Dietrich

Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is. Sigmund Freud Click to tweet

Love is space and time measured by the heart. Marcel Proust

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. Charles Bukowski

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou

If you give, you will be blessed. Joel Osteen

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too. Osho

If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love. Osho

No one is sent by accident to anyone. Unknown

If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror. Roman Price

We love the things we love for what they are. Robert Frost

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. Oscar Wilde

If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do. Brené Brown

Be the love you never received. Unknown Click to tweet

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry David Thoreau

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde

Work on being in love with the person in the mirror who has been through so much but is still standing. Unknown

Never stop showing someone how much they mean to you. Unknown

The best kiss is the one that has been exchanged a thousand times between the eyes before it reaches the lips. Unknown

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. Jorge Luis Borges

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. Albert Camus

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be. Leo Tolstoy

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy

We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle Click to tweet

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. Horace

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle

You have to be a good individual first before you can be a good team player. David Goggins

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. David Ogilvy

The size of your audience doesn’t matter. Just keep up the good work. Unknown

Work in silence. Let your success be your noise. Unknown

Be loyal to those are not present. In doing so, you build the trust of those who are present. Stephen Covey

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. Mary Douglas

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try. Colin Powell

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. Euripides Click to tweet

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. Napoleon Hill

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before. Neil Gaiman

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. Rudyard Kipling

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. William Faulkner

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art. Charles Bukowski

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson Click to tweet

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust

You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. John C. Maxwell

Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.

It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. Unknown

When you’re not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. Larry David

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. William James

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. William James

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. Napoleon Hill

No matter what challenges or setbacks and disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal. There really is only one. And that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Oprah Winfrey

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B. James Yorke

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Oscar Wilde

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. William Shakespeare

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. Epictetus

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. Horace Mann Click to tweet

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

In dreams begin responsibilities. W. B. Yeats

To be prepared is half the victory. Miguel de Cervantes

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success? Larry Flynt

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. Les Brown

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. Marcus Aurelius

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. Marcus Garvey

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today. Maxwell Maltz

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. Denis Waitley

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. Denis Waitley

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies. Gustave Flaubert

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. Jim Rohn

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. Voltaire

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson Click to tweet

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. Lao Tzu

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein

If you will not rise above the things of the world, they will rise above you. Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Let’s shake up some shit. That’s all you can do. Billie Joe Armstrong

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. Marcel Proust

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. Aldoux Huxley

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin

If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time. Marian Wright Edelman

The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will Click to tweet

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. Anne Wilson Scaef

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. Anthony J. D’Angelo

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Arthur Schopenhauer

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles Dubois

All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg C. Lichtenberg

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Henry Steele Commager

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. Heraclitus

To change one’s life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions. William James

Things do not change, we change. Henry David Thoreau

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman Click to tweet

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Georgia O’Keeffe

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It’s a mindset. Dave Pelzer

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Mark Twain

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. Jack Kerouac

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. Virginia Woolf

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Julius Caesar

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else and avoid trouble? Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. Norman Vincent Peale

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats Click to tweet

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. Augustine of Hippo

The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. W. E. B. Du Bois

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. W. E. B. Du Bois

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. Gloria Steinem

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. Henri-Frederic Amiel

Life is a progress, and not a station. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the educated are free. Epictetus Click to tweet

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost

Experience, travel – These are an education in themselves. Euripides

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Albert Einstein

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. Ezra Pound

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen. Arlen Specter

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. Jim Rohn

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. Socrates

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley

You can never spend enough time with children. Dwayne Hickman Click to tweet

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention. Jim Rohn

A good example is the best sermon you can ever preach. Navjot Singh Sidhu

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. Henry Steele Commager

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov

The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view. Jack Kerouac

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world. Maria Montessori

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling

Patience can become second nature, if taught early enough. One of those gifts to your children for which you will be hated first and loved later. Marlene Dietrich

There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. Oscar Wilde

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy

You can only maintain your interest if you’re travelling more in ignorance than knowledge. Chris Morris

It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. Chuck Berry

Well you can’t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. David Hockney

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known. John Lennon

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much. Nastassja Kinski

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Aristotle

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato Click to tweet

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives. Alexandre Dumas

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. Mary J. Blige

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met. W. B. Yeats

And say my glory was I had such friends. W. B. Yeats

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson

Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Euripides Click to tweet

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Seneca

That best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. John Travolta

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich

You can do more good by being good than any other way. John Wooden

Faith in God includes faith in his timing. Neal A. Maxwell Click to tweet

The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is written in the Bible 365 times. That’s a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless. Unknown

One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs. Steve Maraboli

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Jesus Christ

If you will know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the sons of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty. Jesus Christ

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before. Mary Baker Eddy

To love someone means to see him as God intended him. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Click to tweet

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. Elbert Hubbard

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong. John Lennon

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is. Albert Camus

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Søren Kierkegaard

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein Click to tweet

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. Horace

Never speak from a place of hate jealousy anger and insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes it’s best to be quiet. Unkwown

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes. Bruce Lee

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle Click to tweet

Everytime you get upset at something, ask yourself if you were to die tomorrow, was it worth wasting your time being angry?

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. Jules Verne

Man is never perfect, nor contented. Jules Verne

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). Mark Twain

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. Epicurus

No one can give you better advice than yourself. Cicero

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare

While there’s life, there’s hope. Cicero Click to tweet

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future. Danielle Steel

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. Henry Ford

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Jack London

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Roy T. Bennett

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. Gordon A. Eadie

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Augustine of Hippo

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen

Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. Antonio Porchia

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. Sigmund Freud

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Bertrand Russell

Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. Mitch Albom

To live without hope is to cease to live. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Click to tweet

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner

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

Hope will never be silent. Harvey Milk

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. J.R.R. Tolkien

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud