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Inspirational Quotes for Life

Compiled by Michelle Jones

 

Here is a selection of my favorite inspirational quotes as I've personally shared with our readers since 2001.  May they inspire all of us to LIVE a Better LIFE... with FAITH, HOPE and LOVE!  More...

 


"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't."
Richard Bach

"It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Acts 20:35

"The definition of Insanity... Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein

"We must not give only what we have, we must give what we are." 
Cardinal Mercia

"Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
Charles Swindoll

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
John Quincy Adams

Thank God for Dirty Dishes
author unknown

Thank God for Dirty Dishes,
They have a tale to tell.
While others are going hungry,
We're eating very well.

With home and health and happiness,
I shouldn't want to fuss.
For by this stack of evidence,
God's very good to us.

"The miracle is this - The more we share, the more we have."
Leanoard Nimoy

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot

"An optimist is the human personification of spring."
Susan J. Bissonette

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
Lao Tsu

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elbert Hubbard

"Think you can, think you can't--either way, you'll be right."
Henry Ford

"All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty."
Billy Graham

"All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait."
Saint Vincent de Paul

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Excellence is not an act but a habit.  The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
Marva Collins

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
Jonathan Winters

"Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent."
Gary Jennings

"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, To carry money without spending it, And to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."
Ann Landers

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Philo

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." 
John F. Kennedy

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
Anatole France

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
Henry Van Dyke

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
Richard Bach

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this... you haven't."
Thomas Edison

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
John F. Kennedy

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.  The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
Alexander Graham Bell

"Forget past mistakes.  Forget failures.  Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
William C. Durant

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Hannah More

"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."
Julie Cameron

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
Samuel Johnson

"... see that you also excel in this grace of giving."
II Corinthians 8:7 (NIV)

The following poem was featured in loving memory of my mother,
for Mother's Day 2007. She passed away at the age of 61, just 31 days
after being diagnosed with colon cancer, on February 2, 2007.

A Mother's Love
Helen Steiner Rice

A Mother's love is something
that no one can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain...

It is endless and unselfish
and enduring come what may
For nothing can destroy it
or take that love away...

It is patient and forgiving
when all others are forsaking,
And it never fails or falters
even though the heart is breaking...

It believes beyond believing
when the world around condemns,
And it glows with all the beauty
of the rarest, brightest gems...

It is far beyond defining,
it defies all explanation,
And it still remains a secret
like the mysteries of creation...

A many splendoured miracle
man cannot understand
And another wondrous evidence
of God's tender guiding hand.

*  *  *

"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG."
Donald Trump

"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
St. Francis of Assisi

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
Flavia Weedn

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways, it can change someone else's life forever."
Margaret Cho

"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."
Mary Kay Ash

"We taste, feel and see the truth.  We do not reason ourselves into it."
William Butler Yeats

"Action is the antidote to despair."
Joan Baez

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
Lao-Tzu

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
John Ruskin

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and then try to follow where they lead."
Louisa May Alcott

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Edison

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
Isak Denison

"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."
Luciano Decrescenzo

"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

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchhill

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
Carlos Castaneda 

" Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
Aldous Huxley

"We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time. There is not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give."
Eden Eliot

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo

"A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project."
Abigail Van Buren

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
Virginia Satir

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."Thomas Jefferson

"If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo, would have painted on the Sistine floor."
Neil Simon

 

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