Inspirational Quotes · Page 1,267

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;

— William Shakespeare

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

— Edward Abbey

I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

— Thom Yorke

I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.

— Al Franken

“ A person can say lie to the whole world, but he/she cannot lie to himself/herself!”

— Nitesh Ganesh Agawane

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.

— David Platt

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

— Aldous Huxley

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.

— Rumi

“We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.”

— Gina Varamo

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

— Benjamin Franklin

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

— Mark Twain

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

— Thomas Paine

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

— Robert Creeley

“People who create their own opportunities will get further in life than people who expect opportunities to be created for them.”

— Jennifer Coletta

Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it…

— Frederick Lenz

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Formal education makes you a living, self-education makes you a legend.”

— Habeeb Akande

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

— Le Corbusier

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

— Wayne Dyer

My rule is always, People first and things second.

— Leo Buscaglia

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

— Plato

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

— Tyga

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

— Orison Swett Marden

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.

— Anne Murray

“If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.”

— Dee Henderson

A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.

— Oscar de la Renta

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.

— Publilius Syrus

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

— William Shakespeare

If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.

— Lady Gaga

If you listen to yo momma You won't ever have no fun.

— Chris Smither

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

— Grover Norquist

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

— Pablo Picasso

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

— Kevin DeYoung

You can make your life anything you want it to be.

— Ted Nicholas

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

— Saint Augustine

It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved

— J. D. Greear

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

— O. Henry