Inspirational Quotes

As long has words have been recorded, there have been those that inspire the best mankind can aspire to from laughter, to dreaming, from loving to living, wisdom in the form of inspiring words and thoughts has come to us from the ages. The following collection of quotes are those that inspire us to so everything from laugh, show kindness, think hard and aspire to be the best we might be.

“Learn how to feel joy.” Seneca

“Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain

“The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Joseph Addison

“To win one’s joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.” Andre Gide

“Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.” Diderot

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is held together.” Goethe

“To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian—to help them is.” Frank A. Clark

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” Emily Dickinson

“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” Mark Twain

“This is wisdom: to love wine, beauty and the heavenly spring. That’s sufficient—the rest is worthless.” Theodore De Banville

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.” Edith Wharton

“Happiness walks on busy feet.” Kitte Turmell

“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” Maurice Setter

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” Billy Wilder

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” Greek Proverb

“There is a satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and innocent dance.” Homer

“Who covets more is evermore a slave.” Robert Herrick

“As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.” Thich Nhat Hanh

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.” William Allen White

“Courage is being scared to death…and saddling up anyway.” John Wayne

“He who is greedy is always in want.” Horace

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” Morris West

“You are not ever given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.” Richard Bach

“Charity looks at need, not at the cause.” German Proverb

“Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals; Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.” James Allen

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” Shakespeare

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” Henry Drummon

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with fellow men.” Herman Melville

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.” James M. Barrie

“Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.” Charles Fletcher Dole

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Chinese Proverb

“Today is the blocks with which we build.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” William H. Walton

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Ghandi

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Dalai Lama

“There is no wealth but life.” John Ruskin

“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion, a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.” Mark Twain

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” Martin Luther King

“Think of the beauty still left around you and be happy.” Anne Frank

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” Dale Carnegie

“Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.” Spanish Proverb

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.” Joseph Joubert

“Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.” Agnes Turnbull

“Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.” Laura Schlessinger

“Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.” Harvey Mackay

“You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will live forever, live like you're going to die tomorrow and love like it's never going to hurt.” Meme Grifsters

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love?” Chief Powhatan

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never these dangers sufficient reason for remaining on the shore.” Vincent Van Gogh

“Contentment is worth more than riches.” German Proverb

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new yes.” Marcel Proust.”

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.” James Thurber