Inspirational Quotes · Page 2,264

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

— Arthur Young

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

— Albert Camus

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

— E. W. Howe

Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.

— John Gierach

Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others

— Carly Fiorina

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

— Thomas Jefferson

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

— Kim Campbell

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

— Pope John Paul II

“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to…

— Ilchi Lee

“When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to…

— Joan Marques

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

— Rick Warren

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

— Joseph Campbell

It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred…

— Brian Molko

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

A man who is not accountable to anyone is a danger to himself

— Iyanla Vanzant

A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.

— Billy Graham

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one

— Edward Noyes Westcott

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

— Neal Boortz

He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

— Erin Morgenstern

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Genuine relationships depend first on a healthy relationship with ourselves.

— Sonia Choquette

We all need to begin thinking out of the box.

— Peter Piot

It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

— Marvin Hagler

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor…'

— Thomas A. Edison

Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.

— Coluche

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

— Wendy Palmer

“Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.”

— Stephanie Connolly

“All paths lead to truth. All roads lead to God”

— Heidi Telpner

“ Only strong people can find happiness from the sadness surrounding them.”

— Sahaj Oberoi

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

— Charles Mingus

Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.

— Eugene Walter

The Baggio brothers, of course, are not related.

— George Hamilton

One of the biggest fears of players in a shootout is letting your teammates down.

— Alan Shearer

It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

— Bertrand Russell

What you are willing to lose will be proportionate to what you are able to win.

— Marshall Sylver