Inspirational Quotes · Page 2,640

“Shape yourself before the world shapes you.”

— Mahyar Mottahed

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Welcome to science. You’re gonna like it here.

— Phil Plait

“Life is more than a series of ones and zeros.”

— Zenyatta

I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

— Robert Frost

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not…

— Patricia Hickman

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

— Bill Gates

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you…

— Leo Buscaglia

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

— Brené Brown

“Engaged communication is a pursuit of excellence. Communicating attentively and engagingly is striving to be the best you can be.”

— Darlene Corbett

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

— J. I. Packer

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

— Dave Chappelle

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

— Byron Katie

An attitude can murder just as easily as an ax.

— Woodrow M. Kroll

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

— Marilyn Monroe

Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

— Harry Houdini

“Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims.”

— Habeeb Akande

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

— Aeschylus

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

— Garry Winogrand

It was forunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment...

— Louisa May Alcott

The marathon is my only girlfriend. I give her everything I have.

— Toshihiko Seko

“Life is for one day, love is for every day.”

— Santosh Kalwar

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

— Ramana Maharshi

There's something exciting about being afraid.

— Elaine Stritch

If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.

— Harvey Mackay

Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

— Jackie French

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

— June Jordan

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us. - Valdr

— Christopher Paolini

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing

— David Archuleta

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

I only dated one Asian girl, but she was very Asian. She was a panda.

— Jim Gaffigan

Everyday is a new beginning...take a deep breath and start AGAIN!

— Ritu Ghatourey

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

— Gautama Buddha

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

— Mike Sanders

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

— Betty MacDonald

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

— Mary Higgins Clark