Inspirations
Welcome to our Inspirational page. Here, you will find timeless wisdom quotes and proverbs which inspire and encourage us through hope, faith, love and compassion. We hope that the following quotes will inspire you as well and encourage to find ways to bring a little bit of care and compassion into the lives of others especially those who need it the most. Please enjoy and if you have a special quote in mind that you would like to share here, please feel free to let us know and we will gladly add it to this growing collection. Thank you and have a lovely day.
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Motivational Quotes
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"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
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
-Jim Ryun
"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
-St. Francis of Assissi
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
-Benjamin Franklin
"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
-Jane Smiley
"Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you."
-Dr Phil
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
-L.J. Cardinal Suenens
"Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead."
-Les Brown
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
-James Bryant Conant
"It takes heroic humility to be yourself and to be nobody but the person that God intended you to be."
-Thomas Merton
"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When one door shuts, another opens."
-Miguel de Cervantes
"Knowledge is power but enthusiasm pulls the switch."
-Ivern Ball
"There's no ceiling on effort!"
-Harvey C. Fruehauf
"No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living."
-Marie Beynon Ray
"There is not great talent without great will power."
-Honore de Balzac
"Don't be afraid to see what you see."
-Ronald Reagan
"We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all."
-Donald M. Nelson
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else."
-Judy Garland
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
-Jim Rohn
"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
-Frank McKinney
"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."
-Oprah Winfrey
"Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life."
-Oprah Winfrey
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
-William Shakespeare
"Be as you wish to seem."
-Socrates
"Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them."
-Lucy Mand Montgomery
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."
-William F. Scholavino
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-Jeremy Kitson
"I never worked a day in my life. It was all fun!"
-Thomas Edison
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
-Zig Ziglar
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
-William Wallace
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Whatever you are be a good one."
-Abraham Lincoln
"It is far easier to start something than it is to finish."
-Amelia Earhart
"The secret of being patient is to find something else to do in the mean time."
-Author Unknown
"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."
-Napoleon Boneparte
"If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it."
-Author Unknown
"The difference between a hero and a coward is not fear... But what you do with the fear."
-Author Unknown
"When going through Hell, keep going."
-Winston Churchill
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
-Wayne Dyer
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
-Andrew Carnegie
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-John Quincy Adams
"Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them."
-Vernon Howard
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn."
-John Bradshaw
"Body language speaks volumes. Be sure to always keep your head up."
-Billy Blanks
"You have to believe in yourself."
-Sun Tzu
"Being unconquerable lies within yourself."
-Sun Tzu
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
-Lao Tzu
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
-Lao Tzu
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
-Confucius
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
-Confucius
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Hope Quotes
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"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."
-Christopher Reeve
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
-Belva Davis
“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”
-William Sloan
“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
"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
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
-Helen Keller
“Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.”
-Monroe Forester
“Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.”
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“There are no hopeless situations, only people who are hopeless about them.”
-Dinah Shore
“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”
-Mignon McLaughlin
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
-Thomas Fuller
“Know that no matter how bad things seem, they'll always get better. The warmth of spring always follows the harshest winter.”
-Author Unknown
“Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.”
-Author Unknown
“Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.”
-Author Unknown
“Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.”
-Author Unknown
“When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'"
-Author Unknown
“Don't lose hope. When it gets darkest the stars come out.”
-Author Unknown
“Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier."
-Author Unknown
“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.”
-Author Unknown
“Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up.”
-Author Unknown
“Never deprive someone of hope... it may be all they have.”
-Author Unknown
“Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?”
-Author Unknown
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
-Author Unknown
“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”
-Author Unknown
“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who does not hope to win has already lost.”
-Jose Joaquin Olmedo
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.””
-Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love floods us with hope.”
-Jareb Teague
“Where there's life, there's hope.”
-Terence
“Hope costs nothing.”
-Sidonie Gabrielle
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
-O.S. Marden
“The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.”
-William Shakespeare
“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”
-Abraham Cowley
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.”
-Barbara Kingsolver
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”
-Emily Dickinson
“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
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
-Anne Lamott
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”
-George lles
“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life”
-Emil Brunner
"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
-Lin Yutang
"The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."
-Marion Zimmer Bradley
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.”
-George Weinberg
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”
-Samuel Johnson
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
-Bill Cosby
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
-Albert Einstein
“Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.”
-Josh Hartnett
“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”
-Charles L. Allen
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
-Robert Ingersoll
“I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them.. there's only us."
-Oprah Winfrey
“People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives advice. Mr T helps people. I motivate them, I inspire them, I give them hope, and I plant the seed so they can feel good about themselves."
-Mr T
“I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all "see" a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere."
-Russell Simmons
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
-Walt Disney
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Love Quotes
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"While it is faith that makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy."
-Evan H. Hopkins
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-Mother Teresa
"Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared."
-Mother Teresa
"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."
-Mother Teresa
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
-Morrie Schwartz
"Love is love's reward."
-John Dryden
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-Buddha
"Don't forget to love yourself."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with."
-Author Unknown
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and it's only end."
-Benjamin Israeli
"For love is heaven and heaven is love."
-Sir Walter Scott
"Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is."
-Sri Chinmoy
"Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being."
-Sri Chinmoy
"By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself."
-Sri Chinmoy
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life - that word is love."
-Sophocles
"Love is not about getting - but giving."
-Henry Van Dyke
"May my soul bloom in love for all existence."
-Rudolf Steiner
"Love is the master key that opens the gate of happiness."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If you love life, life will love you back."
-Norman Vincent Peale
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
"Woman was created from the rib of man
She was not made from his head to top him
Nor from his feet, to be trampled on.
She was made from his side, to be equal to him
From under his arm to be protected by him
From near his heart to be loved by him."
-Author Unknown
"Faith plants the seed. Love makes it grow."
-Author Unknown
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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Compassion Quotes
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“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
-Jesus Christ
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
-Jesus Christ
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“In seperateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”
-Buddha
"To make others happy, practice compassion. To make yourself happy, practice compassion."
-Dalai Lama
“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”
-Dalai Lama
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
-Seneca
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."
- Henry Ward Beecher
“Compassion is a two way street.”
-Frank Capra
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
-Mark Twain
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
-Aesop
"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish he might have done you a greater one."
-Russell Lyons
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is . . . what are you doing for others?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.”
-Thomas Browne, Sr.
"The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God."
-Robert Burns
"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. Touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are sacred moments and life itself is grace."
-Frederick Buechner
"Patience and fortitude conquer all things."
-Emerson
"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."
-Philo
"Kindness in words creates confidence,
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
Kindness in giving creates love."
-Lao Tse
"From caring comes courage."
-Lao Tzu
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
-Confucius
"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
-Confucius
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
-Confucius
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Friendship Quotes
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"Where there are friends, there is wealth."
-Titus Maccius Plautus
"Treat your friends like you do your picture, and place them in their best light."
-Jennie Jerome Churchill
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
-Jerome Cummings
"What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
-Frank Crane
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."
-Richard Bach
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
-Doug Larson
"Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer."
-Author Unknown
"The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
-Author Unknown
"The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head."
-Author Unknown
"A friend is someone who reaches out for your hand...and touches your heart."
-Author Unknown
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-Walter Winchell
"Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust."
-George MacDonald
"The genius of communication is the ability to be totally honest and totally kind at the same time."
-James Powell
"You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold."
-Kassia
"Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding."
-Mary Lou Retton
"Good friends are good for your health."
-Irwin Sarason
"Most friendships begin with a compliment."
-Peter M. Brown
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
-Dave Tyson Gentry
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-Euripides
"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
-Euripides
"It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter."
-Marlene Dietrich
"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."
-Letty Cottin Pogrebin
"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
-Abigail Van Buren
"How rare and wonderful is that flash in the moment when we realize we have discovered a friend."
-William Rotsler
“If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.”
-Frank Tyger
“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.”
-Mary Schmich
"The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. "
-Oprah Winfrey
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
-Len Wein
"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
-Epicurus
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
-Kahlil Gibran
"Let your best be for your friend."
-Kahlil Gibran
"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-Homer Simpson
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-Apocrypha
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend."
-Albert Camus
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
-Aristotle
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Happiness Quotes
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"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
-James Freeman Clarke
"One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger."
-Chinese Wisdom
“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”
-Taisen Deshimaru Roshi
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
-Richard Wagner
“Some pursue happiness — others create it.”
-Author Unknown
"May you live every day of your life."
-Jonathan Swift
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer up somebody else.”
-Mark Twain
“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
-Newton Booth Tarkington
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it."
-Author Unknown
"A happy heart makes a cheerful face."
-Proverbs 15:13
"Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened!"
-Dr. Seuss
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
-Helen Keller
"Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained."
-John Boswell
“Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human.”
-Tim Hansel
"You can be happy where you are."
-Joel Osteen
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.”
-Roger L'Estrange
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
-Aristotle
“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”
-Sidonie Gabrielle
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
-Frederick Keonig
“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
-Marcel Pagnol.
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
-Albert Einstein
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
-Hugh Downs
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
-Sydney Smith
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
-Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”
-Unknown Author
“Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.”
-Unknown Author
“Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.”
-Sharon Stone
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”
-Marcus A. Antoninus
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
-J. Robert Oppenheimer
"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run."
-George Matthew Adams
"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
-Audrey Hepburn
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
-Emily Dickinson
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-Aristotle
"It makes me happy to help people reach their goals and make a life change. It inspires me to see people happy and loving one another."
-Shellie Blanks Cimarosti
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Success Quotes
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"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed."
-Nelson Boswell
"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed."
-Corita Kent
"Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street."
-William Arthur Ward
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
-Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
-Sven Goran Eriksson
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”
-E. Joseph Cossman
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
-John Wooden
"Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years it can boast a long series of successes."
-Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Success is never wondering what if."
-Karrie Huffman
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
-Albert Schweitzer
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
-Abraham Lincoln
"To realize your true potential of success, you must move away from your comfort zone and work in unchartered land."
-Kevin C. Hall
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
-Christopher Morley
"Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get."
-Dave Gardner
"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."
-Jon Bon Jovi
"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work."
-Mark Twain
"Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race."
-Henry Ford
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-Thomas Edison
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work."
-Thomas A. Edison
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."
-Dale Carnegie
"Winning is a Choice."
-Grandmaster Y.K. Kim
"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."
-Lowell Thomas
"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."
-John R. Amos
"Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not."
-Jerry Gellis
“Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.”
-Max Ehrmann
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
-William James
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
-Albert Einstein
“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
-Pope John Paul II
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
-Jamie Paolinetti
“More strategies fail because they are over-ripe than because they are premature.”
-Kenichi Ohmae
“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.”
-Arnold Palmer
"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."
-Robert Kiyosaki
“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”
-Robert Kiyosaki
"The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time."
-Robert Kiyosaki
“The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most."
-Robert Kiyosaki
"Think and grow rich. "
-Napoleon Hill
"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
-Napoleon Hill
"All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea."
-Napoleon Hill
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
-Napoleon Hill
"Money without brains is always dangerous."
-Napoleon Hill
"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
-Tony Robbins
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
-Tony Robbins
"It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."
-Tony Robbins
"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."
-Tony Robbins
"Go that extra inch - you'll be glad that you did and it gets you closer to the finish line."
-Billy Blanks
"Embrace Change. True success can be defined by your ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
-Connie Sky
"One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests."
-John Stuart Mill
"Success in life consists of going from one mistake to the next without losing your enthusiasm."
-Winston Churchill
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
-Bob Dylan
''I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.''
-Thomas Jefferson
"Once you say you are going to settle for second that's what happens in life, I find."
-John F. Kennedy
"Encourage your people to be committed to a project rather than just be involved in it."
-Richard Pratt
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."
-H. L. Hunt
"There are moments in which all you are and all you will ever become comes down to what you are going to do in the next second."
-Author Unknown
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
-Vernon Howard
"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
-George Matthew Adams
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
-Confucius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
-Confucius
"The right education must tune the strings of the body and mind to perfect spiritual harmony."
-Plato
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
-Aristotle
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
-Aristotle
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Wisdom Quotes
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"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
"When you lose, don't lose lesson."
-Dalai Lama
"Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer."
-Dalai Lama
"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles."
-Buddha
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world."
-Buddha
"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
"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
"Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom."
-Brian Tracy
"Let your conscience be your guide."
-Jiminy Cricket
“Lost time is never found again.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.”
-Queen Elizabeth I
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
-Albert Einstein
“It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.”
-Thomas Jefferson
"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly."
-Mabel Newcomber
"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
-Dr George Crane
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”
-Walter Anderson
"When the well dries, we know the worth of water."
-Ben Franklin
"Life is half spent before we know what it is."
-George Herbert
"Moderation is the secret of survival."
-Manly Hall
"It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected."
-John Bradshaw
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
-Henry David Thoreau
"There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known, he needs no introduction."
-Author Unknown
"The wise don’t expect to find life worth living; they make it that way."
-Author Unknown
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
-Johann W. Von Goethe
"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
-George Matthew Adams
“Be in control of your thought process, because thoughts can determine action, and action determines consequences.”
-Billy Blanks
"To understand is to perceive patterns."
-Isaiah Berlin
"Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding."
-Xi Zhi
"You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder."
-Xi Zhi
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
-Zhuangzi
"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious."
-Zhuangzi
"Those who realize their folly are not true fools."
-Zhuangzi
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
-Confucius
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
-Confucius
"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
-Confucius
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
-Confucius
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
-Socrates
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
-Socrates
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
-Socrates
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. "
-Plato
"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
-Aristotle
"It is a sign of strength, not weakness to admit you don’t know all the answers."
-John P. Loughrane
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Faith Quotes
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"Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see."
-William Newton Clark
"Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits."
-Blaise Pascal
"Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible."
-Sir William Osler
"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."
-Mary McLeod Bethun
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
-William James
"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.”
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.”
-Edith Hamilton
"Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.”
-St. Augustine
"In the midst of your doubts, don’t forget how many of the important questions God does answer.”
-Verne Becker
"We have to pray with our eyes on God and not on the difficulties.”
-Oswald Chambers
"Deep faith eliminates fear.”
-Lech Walesa
"The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is … lack of faith.”
-Carl Jung
"Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.”
-Henry Chester
"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
-Helen Keller
"Faith is reason grown courageous.”
-Sherwood Eddy
“Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.”
-Cullen Hightower
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying."
-Mason Cooley
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
-St. Thomas Aquinas
"All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
-James Freeman Clarke
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
-Kahlil Gibran
"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
-Philip James Baile
"Whoever falls from God’s right hand is caught into His left."
-Edwin Markham
"Where hope grows, miracles blossom."
-Elna Rae
"If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden."
-Ashleigh Brilliant
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
-William Ellery Channing
"Whoso loves, believes the impossible."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"God is even kinder than you think."
-St Theresa
"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."
-Mother Teresa
"No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you."
-Helen Steiner Rice
"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it."
-Oprah Winfrey
"Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them."
-Norman Vincent Peale
"When God calls you to do something, he enables you to do it."
-Dr Robert Schuller
"I would rather err on the side of faith than on the side of doubt."
-Dr Robert Schuller
"Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation."
-Dr Robert Schuller
"As you practice counting your blessings, you will find that your faith is being suddenly revitalized."
-Dr Robert Schuller
"Faith is no irresponsible shot in the dark. It is a responsible trust in God, who knows the desires of your hearts, the dreams you are given, and the goals you have set. He will guide your paths right."
-Robert Schuller
"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?"
-Queen Elizabeth II
"When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found."
-Sufi Aphorism
"Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise."
-Charles Spurgeon
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around."
-Gloria Gaither
"Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy."
-Joel Osteen
"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance. "
-Joel Osteen
"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself."
-Muhammad Ali
"Prayer does not change God, but changes the one who prays."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness."
-Sri Chinmoy
"If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God."
-Sri Chinmoy
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
-Robert Lewis Stevenson
"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"
-Graham Greene
"It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason."
-Blaise Pascal
"Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and there’s no room left for worry thoughts."
-Howard Chandler Christy
"Prayer puts God’s work in His hands – and keeps it there."
-E.M. Bounds
"If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down."
-Anna Delaney Peale
"Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither."
-C.S. Lewis
"When you go to your knees, God will help you stand up to anything."
-Author Unknown
"Judge each day not by its harvest, but by the seeds you plant."
-Author Unknown
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Bible Quotes
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“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."
-Matthew 7:7-8
"Seek ye first his kingdom and righteousness and all these things will be added unto you."
-Matthew 6:33
"It is done unto you as you believe."
-Matthew 9:29
"With men it is impossible; but to God all things are possible."
-Matthew 19:26
"Come unto me, ye who are weary and overburdened, and I will give you rest."
-Matthew 11:28
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth . . . but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . ."
-Matthew 6:19-20
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
-Matthew 5:8
"For what shall it profit a man, If he shall gain the whole world... And lose his own soul?"
-Mark 8:36
"If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believeth."
-Mark 9:23
"He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much."
-Luke 16:10
"The kingdom of God is within you."
-Luke 17:21
"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, forgive, and ye shall be forgiven."
-Luke 6:37
"Unless you are faithful in small matters, you won’t be faithful in large ones. If you cheat even a little, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven?"
-Luke 16:10-11 NLT
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
-John 1:1 KJV
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins."
-1 John 1:9
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."
-III John
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear..."
-I John 4:18
"I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst."
-John 6:35
"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you."
-John 15:7
"Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious."
-I Peter 2:7
"Cast your cares upon the Lord, for he cares about you."
-I Peter 5:7
"My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience."
-James 1:2-3
"God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
-James 4:6
"And Jesus said unto them ... , 'If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.'"
- Romans 1:17
"Love is patient, love is kind, Love does not insist on its own way. Love bears all things, believes all things, Hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."
-1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong."
-1 Corinthians 16:13
"I have great confidence in you; I take great pride in you. I am greatly encouraged; in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds."
-2 Corinthians 7:4 NIV
"I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."
-Philippians 4:13
"The fruit of the spirit is love, joy and peace."
-Galatians 5:22
"It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect."
-Psalm 18:32
"The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes."
-Psalm 19:7-8 NIV
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."
-Psalm 23
"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him."
-Psalm 28:7
"Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday."
-Psalm 37:5-6 NKJV
"Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me."
-Psalm 50:15 NKJV
"The goodness of God endures continually."
-Psalm 52:1
"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
-Psalm 55:22
"May the Lord continually bless you with heaven’s blessings as well as with human joys."
-Psalm 128:5 TLB
"Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?' Then I said, 'Here I am! Send me.'"
-Isaiah 6:8
"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."
-Isaiah 41:10 KJV
"O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work for your hand."
-Isaiah 64:8 NIV
"Remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the power to get wealth."
-Deuteronomy 8:18
"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
-Deuteronomy 31:6
"God is with you in all that you do."
-Genesis 21:22
"Stand still and consider the wondrous works of God."
-Job 37:14
"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and future.'"
-Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
"There is hope in your future, says the Lord."
-Jeremiah 31:17
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."
-Proverbs 3:5-6
"The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He adds no sorrow with it."
-Proverbs 10:22
"Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."
-Joshua 1:9
"You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed."
-Joshua 23:14 NIV
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International Proverbs
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."
-English Proverb
"Practice what you preach.”
-American Proverb
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
-Native American Proverb
"Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet."
-Canadian Proverb
"Pray indeed, but get to work!"
-Mexican Proverb
"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."
-Spanish Proverb
“Live your own life, for you will die your own death.”
-Latin Proverb
“One who does not look ahead remains behind”
-Brazilian Proverb
“Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good."
-Cuban Proverb
“There is a great distance between said and done."
-Puerto Rican Proverb
"However long the night, the dawn will break."
-African Proverb
“Little and lasting is better than much and passing."
-Moroccan Proverb
“You can outdistance that which is running after you but not what is running inside you."
-Rwandan Proverb
“Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened."
-Egyptian Proverb
“Hold a true friend with both your hands."
-Nigerian Proverb
“The apple does not fall far from the tree."
-Yiddish Proverb
“Act quickly, think slowly.”
-Greek Proverb
“Old wine and friends improve with age.”
-Italian Proverb
"Your most faithful friends are your own hands."
-Sicilian Proverb
“Ask a lot, but take what is offered.”
-Russian Proverb
“Every disadvantage has its advantage.”
-Ukrainian Proverb
"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.”
-Czech Proverb
"A light is still a light -- even though the blind man cannot see it.”
-Austrian Proverb
"A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot."
-German Proverb
“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.”
-French Proverb
"Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself.”
-Polish Proverb
“Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.”
-Swiss Proverb
“Tears are words the heart can't express.”
-Australian Proverb
“Even the longest day has its end.”
-Irish Proverb
“Were it not for hope the heart would break.”
-Scottish Proverb
“Live to live and you will learn to live.”
-Portuguese Proverb
“That which is loved is always beautiful.”
-Norwegian Proverb
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”
-Swedish Proverb
“Even a small star shines in the darkness.”
-Finnish Proverb
“A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.”
-Turkish Proverb
“Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.”
-Jewish Proverb
"The mind is for seeing, the heart is for hearing.”
-Saudi Arabian Proverb
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.”
-Arabic Proverb
“Thinking is the essence of wisdom.”
-Persian Proverb
“For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.”
-Indian Proverb
“Opportunity comes but does not linger."
-Nepal Proverb
“If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing in this moment.”
-Tibetan Proverb
"The distance between heaven and earth is no greater than one thought."
-Mongolian Proverb
"A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth."
-Filipino Proverb
“Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.”
-Malaysian Proverb
“Goodness shouts. Evil whispers.”
-Indonesian Proverb
“When you are alone, be careful of your thoughts; When you are with friends, be careful of your speech.”
-Lao Proverb
"People give, but don't be in a hurry to take."
-Cambodian Proverb
"You have to sacrifice something to get something."
-Thai Proverb
"Something that looks good does not necessarily taste good."
-Taiwanese Proverb
"He who fights fire with fire burns his house down twice as fast."
-Vietnamese Proverb
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
-Japanese Proverb
"Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles."
-Korean Proverb
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb




