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

inspirational

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

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

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

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

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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

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

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

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

Hope is a waking dream.

Great hopes make great men.

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

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Belief creates the actual fact.

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.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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

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

The best way out is always through.

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.

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.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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

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

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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

We convince by our presence.

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

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

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

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

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

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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

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.

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

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

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

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

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

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

Our ideals are our better selves.