Quotes For You

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. - Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. - Henry Van Dyke

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle. - Henry Miller

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. - Phantom F. Harlock

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. -Pearl S. Buck

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds – and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own. - Michael Crichton, Prey

In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow. - Louise Driscoll

Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own. - John Ruskin

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence. - Orison Swett Marden, Motivational author

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. - Noah Webster

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. - William James

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. - John W Foster

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is miracle. - Marianne Williamson

Courage without conscience is a wild beast. - Robert Ingersoll

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. - Martin Luther King

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. - Albert Einstein

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. - Gandhi

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. - Thomas Fuller

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. - Thomas Robert Gaines

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is by trusting him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. - Henry L. Stimson, Former U.S. Secretary of State

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air. -Ludwig von Mises

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them. - Ann Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)

If you have courage, you will influence people based on your convictions. If you lack courage, you will influence people based on your comfort zones. Courage will take you anywhere you believe God is leading you. Without courage, you will go where you are comfortable. - Wayne Schmidt

My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night But ah, my foes and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light! - Edna St. Vincent Millay

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge... and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done. - Arland Gilbert

In matters of style, swim with the current, In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau

To fight fear, act. To increase fear–wait, put off postpone. - David Joseph Schwartz

The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than beurocracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. - President Abraham Lincoln.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. - William Wordsworth

While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader. - John Adams

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld, 18th Century nobleman

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. -Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. - Bernadette Devlin

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. - Franklin P. Jones

Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life. - James Francis Byrnes

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. - Franklin P Jones

There are two kinds of light: the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings

When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain... - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Life's Harmonies.

We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

It is never too late to become what you might have been. - George Eliot

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. - Benjamin Franklin

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. - Iris Murdoc

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. - Grace Hansen

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder. - Henry C. Wright, The Liberator, 7 April 1837

By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922- ) Author

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. - Dresden James

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. - Charles D. Gill

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species. - Louise J. Kaplan

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, American War Ace

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. - George Washington

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Arthur Gordon

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? - Henry David Thoreau