Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

inspirational

Enthusiasm moves the world.

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

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Hope is a waking dream.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Great hopes make great men.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The best way out is always through.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

We convince by our presence.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.