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100 Inspirational Quotes 1

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. ~Gilles Deleuze

A goal without a plan is just a wish. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ~Charles Darwin

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live. ~Lao Tzu

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. ~Leonardo da Vinci

A penny saved is a penny earned ~Benjamin Franklin

A persons a person, no matter how small. ~Dr. Seuss

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone elses life. ~Roy T. Bennett

A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for. ~William G.T. Shedd

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent. ~Roy T. Bennett

A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. ~Roy T. Bennett

A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And its the most painful thing youll ever have to do and that youve ever done. But whats yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, itll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you wont have to put it back in the sky again. ~C. JoyBell C.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do. ~Anonymous

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. ~Roy T. Bennett

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. ~Bruce Lee

After all," anne had said to marilla once, "i believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. ~L.M. Montgomery

Aim higher in case you fall short. ~Suzanne Collins

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. ~Mitch Albom

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. ~Gautama Buddha

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. ~Francis of Assisi

All thinking men are atheists. ~Ernest Hemingway

Always do what you are afraid to do. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner

Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. ~Roy T. Bennett

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. ~Roy T. Bennett

Amor fati – love your fate, which is in fact your life. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

And - which is more - youll be a man, my son! ~Rudyard Kipling

And eternity in an hour. ~William Blake

And my roots will set off to seek another land ~Pablo Neruda

And never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ~Haruki Murakami

And only herself ~Maya Angelou

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than god which will make him happy. ~C.S. Lewis

And that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost

And the little prince added, "but eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ~Maya Angelou

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ~Mark Twain

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. ~Clive Barker

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, thats what makes you strong. ~Sarah Dessen

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because were curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ~Walt Disney Company

Art is the proper task of life. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

As my sufferings mounted i soon realized that there were two ways in which i could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! ~Maya Angelou

At all times, dare to be! ~Steve Maraboli

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets. ~Steve Maraboli

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ~Roy T. Bennett

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston S. Churchill

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. ~Roy T. Bennett

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. ~Jalaluddin Rumi

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind. ~Roy T. Bennett

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ~John Wooden

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. ~Gustave Flaubert

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience. ~Roy T. Bennett

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Be the positive impact on the lives of others. ~Roy T. Bennett

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. ~Roy T. Bennett

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ~Oscar Wilde

Because paper has more patience than people. ~Anne Frank

Because, she said, when youre scared but you still do it anyway, thats brave. ~Neil Gaiman

Believe in your heart that youre meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles. ~Roy T. Bennett

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. ~Roy T. Bennett

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~Gautama Buddha

Believe you can and youre halfway there. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Bermimpilah, karena tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu. ~Andrea Hirata

Better to be strong than pretty and useless. ~Lilith Saintcrow

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! ~John Anster

But if im it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell im going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but i am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if i am the last one, then i am humanity. And if this is humanitys last war, then i am the battlefield. ~Rick Yancey

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! ~Charlotte Brontë

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. ~Wayne W. Dyer

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

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

Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone elses. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone elses blessings instead of your own. ~Roy T. Bennett

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. ~Napoléon Bonaparte

Dance, when youre broken open. Dance, if youve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when youre perfectly free. ~Jalaluddin Rumi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail... ~Sophie Kinsella

Dear god," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when i sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost. ~Betty Smith

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But theres a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room i shall be able to see. ~Helen Keller

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender. ~Tupac Shakur

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it. ~Patricia Cornwell

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. ~Roy T. Bennett

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind. ~Roy T. Bennett

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. It is real.. It is possible.. Its yours. ~Ayn Rand

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ~Gustave Flaubert

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ~Anaïs Nin

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. ~Albert Einstein

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. ~Roy T. Bennett

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Roy T. Bennett

Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don't let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible. ~Roy T. Bennett

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. ~Roy T. Bennett

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. ~Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid of your fears. Theyre not there to scare you. Theyre there to let you know that something is worth it. ~C. JoyBell C.

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. ~Roy T. Bennett

Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you! ~Steve Maraboli

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

Don't let the bastards grind you down. ~Margaret Atwood

Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. Its your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure. ~Roy T. Bennett

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