Quotes To Inspire

Quotes To Inspire







Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.


- William Yeats



To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.


- Stephen Covey



You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'


- George Bernard Shaw



The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson



We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.


- Luciano de Crescenzo



You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.


- Kahlil Gibran



There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.


- Victor Hugo



A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.


- Antoine De Saint-Exupery



Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in the world.


- Blaise Pascal



Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.


- Abraham Lincoln







I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.


- Thoreau



The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.


- William Dean Howells



Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.


- Walt Disney



We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.


- T.S. Eliot



Every moment in planning saves 3 or 4 in execution.


- Crawford Greenwalt



Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.


- Winston Churchill



Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.


- Goethe



Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.


- Albert Einstein



People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.


- James J. Walsh



How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.


- George Washington Carver



Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


- Mark Twain



Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.


- Carl Schurz



Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson







To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.


-Frances M. Beal



Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.


- Jameson Frank



Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.


- Thomas Carlyle



Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.


- Chinese Proverb



That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.


- Emerson

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.


- William Faulkner



Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.


- David Starr Jordan



The first and most important step toward...success is the feeling that we can succeed.


- Nelson Boswell



Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.


- Theodore Roosevelt



We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.


- e.e. cummings









The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.


-Nelson Henderson



When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.


-Thomas Carlyle



Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.


- John Keats



Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.


-Tagore



Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.


- Marcus Aurelius



Without haste, but without rest.


- Goethe

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