360 Inspirational Quotes

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QUOTE	AUTHOR	TOPIC
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.	William James	Values
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.	William Thackeray	Values
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.	Vince Lombardi	Values
Do what you can with what you have where you are.	Theodore Roosevelt	Values
A sound body is a first-class thing; a sound mind is an even better thing; but the thing that counts for most in the individual as in the nation, is character, the sum of those qualities which make a man a good man and a woman a good woman.	Theodore Roosevelt	Values
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.	T. S. Elliot	Values
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.	Sir Winston Churchill	Values
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.	Shira Tehrani	Values
He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well doing is, in itself, ample reward.	Seneca	Values
What is beautiful is good and who is good will also be beautiful.	Sappho	Values
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.	Sandra Carey	Values
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.	Rene Descartes	Values
I think, therefore I am.	Rene Descartes	Values
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Values
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Values
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	Values
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.	Patrick Henry	Values
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Values
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.	Nora Roberts	Values
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away; to act with courage and dignity and to stick to ideals that have given meaning to life.	Nehru	Values
Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.	Mary Pickford	Values
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.	Mark Twain	Values
Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.	Malcolm Forbes	Values
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.	Mahatma Gandhi	Values
True beauty consists in purity of heart.	Mahatma Gandhi	Values
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.	Mahatma Gandhi	Values
A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.	Mahatma Gandhi	Values
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.	Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time	Values
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.	Lee Holz	Values
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.	Lao-Tzu	Values
By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path	Julia Cameron	Values
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.	John W. Gardner	Values
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.	John Locke	Values
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Values
We see things as we are not as they are.	Jennifer Stone	Values
All men should strive to learn before they die- what they are running from, to, and why.	James Thurber	Values
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.	James Joyce	Values
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?	James Allen	Values
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.	Henry J. M. Nouwen	Values
Things do not change; we change.	Henry David Thoreau	Values
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.	Henry David Thoreau	Values
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.	Helen Adams Keller	Values
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	Values
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.	Norman Schwarzkopf	Values
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.	Friedrich von Schiller	Values
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.	Foster C. McClellan	Values
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.	Elmer G. Letterman	Values
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.	Eleanor Roosevelt	Values
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the things which you think you cannot do.	Eleanor Roosevelt	Values
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.	Eleanor Roosevelt	Values
Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you’ve got into it.	Edward William Bok	Values
Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.	Edward Tenner	Values
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.	Edgar J. Mohn	Values
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.	Edgar Allan Poe	Values
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.	e.e. cummings	Values
We seek victory - not over any nation or people - but over ignorance, poverty, disease, and human degradation wherever they may be found.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Values
Vanity asks the question – is it popular? Conscience asks the question – is it right?	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Values
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Values
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Values
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Values
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.	Confucius	Values
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.	Confucius	Values
Respect yourself and others will respect you.	Confucius	Values
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.	Confucius	Values
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.	Confucius	Values
A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool.	Confucius	Values
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.	Billy Graham	Values
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.	Amelia Earhart	Values
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.	Aldous Huxley	Values
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.	Albert Einstein	Values
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.	Abraham Maslow	Values
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.	Abraham Lincoln	Values
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.	Helen Keller	Values
The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.	Confucius	Values
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.	Aristotle	Values
A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.	H. Stanley Judd	Values

QUOTE	AUTHOR	TOPIC
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.	Vincent van Gogh	Service
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.	Thomas Jefferson	Service
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.	Sir Winston Churchill	Service
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.	Sir Winston Churchill	Service
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.	Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell	Service
Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.	Robert F. Kennedy	Service
Here is a test to find out if your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.	Richard Bach	Service
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Service
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.	Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi	Service
It is my firm conviction that all good action is bound to bear fruit in the end.	Mahatma Gandhi	Service
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.	Louis L'Amour	Service
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.	John Wesley	Service
The human mind is our fundamental resource	John F. Kennedy	Service
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.	Joan Baez	Service
It would be more honorable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more.	Horace Mann	Service
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.	Confucius	Service
Choose your job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.	Confucius	Service
Energy and persistence conquer all things.	Benjamin Franklin	Service
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.	Aristotle	Service
Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.	Anna Quindlen	Service
Some people think that all the world should share their misfortunes, though they do not share in the sufferings of any one else.	Achille Poincelot	Service
The service-learning experience is good for the health, of body and spirit, of both servers and receivers.	Robert Johns	Service

QUOTE	AUTHOR	TOPIC
All human beings are also dream beings. Dream ties all humankind together.	Jack Kerouac	Self-Care
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.	Woodrow Wilson	Self-Care
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.	Williams Shakespeare	Self-Care
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.	Vincent van Gogh	Self-Care
Never spend your money before you have it.	Thomas Jefferson	Self-Care
He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost.	Thomas Fuller	Self-Care
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.	Thomas Carlyle	Self-Care
Your breathing is your greatest friend. Return to it in all your troubles and you will find comfort and guidance.	The Teaching of Buddhist Master	Self-Care
There is time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.	Tennessee Williams	Self-Care
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.	Stephen King	Self-Care
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.	Sophia Loren	Self-Care
Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise.	Sigmund Freud	Self-Care
Enjoy life – there are no re-runs.	Shirl Lowery	Self-Care
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.	Scottish Proverb	Self-Care
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.	Samuel Johnson	Self-Care
By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny.	Ruth Barrick Golden	Self-Care
Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5.	Roseanne	Self-Care
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.	Plato	Self-Care
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.	Martha Graham	Self-Care
The body says what words cannot.	Martha Graham	Self-Care
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.	Mark Twain	Self-Care
It is only possible to live happily everafter on a day to day basis.	Margaret Bonnano	Self-Care
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.	Mahatma Gandhi	Self-Care
Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.	Lucille Ball	Self-Care
Learn as much by writing as by reading.	Lord Acton	Self-Care
There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own..for you are unique and more wondrous than you know.	Linda Staten	Self-Care
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.	Leonardo DaVinci	Self-Care
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.	Kim Hubbard	Self-Care
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.	Judy Garland	Self-Care
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.	Joseph Addison	Self-Care
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.	John Updike	Self-Care
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.	John Lennon	Self-Care
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.	John F. Kennedy	Self-Care
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.	Jean Kerr	Self-Care
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.	James Beattie	Self-Care
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.	Hippocrates	Self-Care
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.	Henry David Thoreau	Self-Care
[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.	Henry David Thoreau	Self-Care
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	Self-Care
Security is a superstition--it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.	Helen Keller	Self-Care
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	Self-Care
The delights of self-discovery are always available.	Gail Sheehy	Self-Care
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.	Frank Herbert	Self-Care
Remembering the past gives power to the present.	Faye Myenne Og	Self-Care
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.	Elisabeth Kubler-Ross	Self-Care
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.	Elisabeth Kubler-Ross	Self-Care
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.	Eleanor Roosevelt	Self-Care
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.	Edwin Schlossberg	Self-Care
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.	Edward Stanley	Self-Care
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.	Dale Turner	Self-Care
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.	Dolly Parton	Self-Care
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.	Derek Bok	Self-Care
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.	Dale Carnegie	Self-Care
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.	Charles Schulz	Self-Care
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.	Carol Welch	Self-Care
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.	Buddha	Self-Care
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.	Bob Hope	Self-Care
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.	Benjamin Franklin	Self-Care
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.	Benjamin Franklin	Self-Care
Lost time is never found again.	Benjamin Franklin	Self-Care
Eat to live, and not live to eat.	Benjamin Franklin	Self-Care
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.	Benjamin Franklin	Self-Care
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.	Aristotle	Self-Care
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.	Aristotle	Self-Care
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.	Arabian Proverb	Self-Care
If you want to know what your experiences were like in the past, examine your body now. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future examine your experiences now.	Ancient Proverb	Self-Care
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.	Aldous Huxley	Self-Care
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.	Albert Einstein	Self-Care
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.	Alanis Morissette	Self-Care
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.	Aiden Nowlan	Self-Care
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.	Abraham Lincoln	Self-Care
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make things familiar, and familiar things new.	Samuel Johnson	Self-Care
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.	Rene Descartes	Self-Care
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.	Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald	Self-Care
Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know.	Muhammad	Self-Care
It is health which is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.	Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi	Self-Care

QUOTE	AUTHOR	TOPIC
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.	Francis Bacon	Relationship Health
Never lose a chance to say a kind word.	William Thackeray	Relationship Health
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.	William Hazlitt	Relationship Health
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.	Thomas Sowell	Relationship Health
Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.	Theodore Rubin	Relationship Health
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.	Socrates	Relationship Health
There are plenty of men to say good things, but very few to listen. That requires strength of mind.	Sir Rabindranath Tagore	Relationship Health
A friend is a present you give yourself.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Relationship Health
The only way to have a friend is to be one.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Relationship Health
Love and you shall be loved.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Relationship Health
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.	Ralph W. Sockman	Relationship Health
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.	Plutarch	Relationship Health
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.	Plato	Relationship Health
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.	Oprah Winfrey	Relationship Health
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.	Mother Theresa	Relationship Health
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.	Mother Theresa	Relationship Health
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do.	Michelle Ventor	Relationship Health
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.	Mark Twain	Relationship Health
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.	Mahatma Gandhi	Relationship Health
Too often we underestimate the power of touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.	Leo Buscaglia	Relationship Health
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.	Judith Martin	Relationship Health
Of those to whom much is given, much is required.	John F. Kennedy	Relationship Health
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.	John F. Kennedy	Relationship Health
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.	Japanese Proverb	Relationship Health
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.	Helen Keller	Relationship Health
What do we live for; is it not to make life less difficult for each other?	George Eliot	Relationship Health
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.	Eric Hoffer	Relationship Health
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.	e.e. cummings	Relationship Health
The smallest good deed is better than the greatest good intention	Duguet	Relationship Health
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible languages of the heart.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Relationship Health
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Relationship Health
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion.	Dale Carnegie	Relationship Health
When anger arises, think of the consequences.	Confucius	Relationship Health
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.	Confucius	Relationship Health
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.	Confucius	Relationship Health
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.	Clarence Thomas	Relationship Health
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.	Chinese Proverb	Relationship Health
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.	Cherie Carter-Scott	Relationship Health
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.	Carl Jung	Relationship Health
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.	Blaise Pascal	Relationship Health
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.	Bill Cosby	Relationship Health
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.	Arnold Glasgow	Relationship Health
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	Relationship Health
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.	Alber Schweitzer	Relationship Health
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friend.	Abraham Lincoln	Relationship Health
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.	Euripides	Relationship Health
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.	Albert Schweitzer	Relationship Health

QUOTE	AUTHOR	TOPIC
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.	Henri Matisse	Optimism
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Optimism
Hope is a waking dream.	Aristotle	Optimism
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	Optimism
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.	Ziggy	Optimism
Eighty percent of success is showing up.	Woody Allen	Optimism
If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.	William Arthur Ward	Optimism
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.	Wayne Gretsky	Optimism
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.	Walt Disney	Optimism
If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.	Walt Disney	Optimism
To ask the hard question is simple.	W.H. Auden	Optimism
Learn to cultivate your own garden.	Voltaire	Optimism
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.	Thomas Jefferson	Optimism
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.	Thomas Alva Edison	Optimism
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.	Thomas Alva Edison	Optimism
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.	Thomas Alva Edison	Optimism
Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it.	T. S. Eliot	Optimism
There is no such thing as expecting too much.	Susan Cheever	Optimism
Begin with the end in mind.	Stephen Covey	Optimism
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.	Sophocles	Optimism
The price of greatness is responsibility.	Sir Winston Churchill	Optimism
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.	Sir Winston Churchill	Optimism
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.	Sir Winston Churchill	Optimism
Take the time to come home to yourself every day.	Robin Casarjean	Optimism
The only way around is through.	Robert Frost	Optimism
Some men see things as they are and say 'why.' I dream things that never were and say, 'why not?'	Robert F. Kennedy	Optimism
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.	Richard L. Evans	Optimism
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Optimism
This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better.	R.A. Campbell	Optimism
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potentials. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.	Pope John XXIII	Optimism
This above all: to thine own self be true.	William Shakespeare	Optimism
The beginning is the most important part of the work.	Plato	Optimism
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.	Pablo Picasso	Optimism
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.	Pablo Picasso	Optimism
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.	Oscar Wilde	Optimism
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.	Norman Vincent Peale	Optimism
Change your thoughts and you change your world.	Norman Vincent Peale	Optimism
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	Optimism
All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.	Michael Carr	Optimism
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.	Mary Kay Ash	Optimism
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.	Mark Twain	Optimism
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. . . . . . Explore. Dream. Discover.	Mark Twain	Optimism
We are the hero of our own story.	Mark McCarthy	Optimism
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.	Maori Proverb	Optimism
Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.	Louis Mann	Optimism
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it, than those who give up as unattainable.	Lord Chesterfield	Optimism
The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat.	Lilly Tomlin	Optimism
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.	Lee Salk	Optimism
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.	Lance Armstrong	Optimism
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.	Joseph Chilton Pearce	Optimism
May you live all the days of your life.	Jonathon Swift	Optimism
We need men who can dream of things that never were.	John F. Kennedy	Optimism
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.	Jean Piaget	Optimism
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.	Jean Jacques Rousseau	Optimism
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?	Jane Wagner	Optimism
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.	James Stephens	Optimism
Dream as if you'll live forever…live as if you'll die today.	James Dean	Optimism
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.	Jack Dixon	Optimism
The aim of education should be to teach the child to think, not what to think.	Indira Gandhi	Optimism
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.	Henry Ford	Optimism
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.	Henry David Thoreau	Optimism
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.	Helen Keller	Optimism
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.	Helen Keller	Optimism
Never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Optimism
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.	Grace Hansen	Optimism
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.	George Eliot	Optimism
It is never too late to be what you might have been.	George Eliot	Optimism
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.	George S. Patton	Optimism
Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.	Frederick Langbridge	Optimism
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.	Francis Bacon	Optimism
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.	Laura Schlessinger	Optimism
Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.	Don Ward	Optimism
Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success	Denis Waitley	Optimism
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.	David McCullough	Optimism
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.	Daniel J. Boorstin	Optimism
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	Optimism
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.	Confucius	Optimism
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.	Chinese Proverb	Optimism
Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.	Chinese Proverb	Optimism
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.	Carol Burnett	Optimism
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.	Beverly Sills	Optimism
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.	Beverly Sills	Optimism
The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.	Ayn Rand	Optimism
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red light…But the truly wise person is color-blind.	Albert Schweitzer	Optimism
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.	Albert Einstein	Optimism
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has found liberation from the self.	Albert Einstein	Optimism
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.	Albert Einstein	Optimism
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.	Abraham Lincoln	Optimism
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.	Abraham Lincoln	Optimism
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.	James Freeman Clarke	Optimism
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.	Norman Vincent Peale	Optimism

QUOTE	AUTHOR	TOPIC
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.	Zeno	Natural World
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.	Willa Sibert Cather	Natural World
When you live on a round planet, you can’t afford to take sides.	Wayne Dyer	Natural World
What is love? . . . . It is the morning and the evening star.	Sinclair Lewis	Natural World
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Natural World
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Natural World
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.	Maya Angelou	Natural World
Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, or a wild river, or a gleaming seashore. But we can keep those we have.	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Natural World
All art is but imitation of nature.	Lucius Annaceus Seneca	Natural World
Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.	Leo Buscaglia	Natural World
We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.	John Naisbilt	Natural World
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.	John F. Kennedy	Natural World
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.	Helen Keller	Natural World
The Milky Way contains some 400 billion stars of all sorts moving with a complex and orderly grace. Of all the stars, the inhabitants of Earth know close-up, so far, but one.	Carl Sagan	Natural World
Nature does nothing uselessly.	Aristotle	Natural World
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.	Aristotle	Natural World
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!	Anne Frank	Natural World
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.	Alfred Billings Street	Natural World
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.	Albert Pike	Natural World
Enable us to perfect the way of our living by completely submitting to the Laws of Nature.	A prayer from the modern Japanese religion	Natural World
An optimist is the human personification of spring.	Susan J. Bissonette	Natural World
All men by nature desire knowledge.	Aristotle	Natural World

QUOTE	AUTHOR	TOPIC
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.	Thomas Henry Huxley	Community
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.	Thomas Alva Edison	Community
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people.	Theodore Roosevelt	Community
I always expect everything I do to change the world, not just because there's something special about me but because everything in the world was changed by one person, if you think about it. You'd be hard pressed to think of an example of anything that didn't start with one person.	Scott Adams	Community
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves; some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.	Sam Ewing	Community
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.	Sally Koch	Community
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Community
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.	Quintus Curtius Rufus	Community
It is not what you say that matters, but what you do.	Nehru	Community
Wisdom is no monopoly of one continent or one race.	Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi	Community
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.	Margaret Mead	Community
Just as there must be balance in what a community produces, so there must also be balance in what the community consumes.	John Kenneth Galbraith	Community
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.	John F. Kennedy	Community
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.	Joan Baez	Community
It is a little dangerous to live in a society which is closed up like a shell. We petrify there and grow unaccustomed to fresh air and fresh ideas.	Jawaharlal Nehru	Community
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.	Henrik Ibsen	Community
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.	Helen Adams Keller	Community
It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.	Gertrude Bell	Community
Yearning for community is a universal trait. Many people long for a deeper sense of belonging, kinship, and support.…Without community, both physical and mental health decline. With community, health blossoms and new possibilities open.	Elan Shapiro and Kristin Anundsen	Community
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.	Edmund Burke	Community
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.	Edmund Burke	Community
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.	Confucius	Community
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.	Catherine Aird	Community
It is a community of purpose that constitutes society.	Benjamin Disraeli	Community
We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our own.	Ben Sweetland	Community
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.	Andrew Carnegie	Community

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