Famous Inspirational famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
-- Alice Walker -
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
-- Booker T. Washington -
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?
-- Caroline Norton -
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
-- Clint Eastwood -
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
-- Frank Gehry -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
-- George Eliot -
Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
-- Helen Hayes -
So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
-- Helen Keller -
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.
-- Henry Ford -
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
-- Irving Berlin -
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
-- Jesse Jackson -
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
-- Jim Rohn -
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
-- John Greenleaf Whittier -
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
-- Jonathan Winters -
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
-- Khalil Gibran -
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
-- Mahalia Jackson -
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
-- Muhammad Ali -
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
-- Og Mandino -
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
-- Sylvia Plath -
There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?"
-- Wayne Dyer -
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.
-- Will Smith -
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
-- Wilt Chamberlain
