Quotes Tagged "inspirational"

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Tears are words that need to be written.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.

Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.