Paulo Coelho – teacher
“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in …
Category: Inspirational quotes
Inspirational quotes
Celia Barbour – memory
“One bite of a dish can send you tumbling back into some half-forgotten memory. But a taste can also bump you gently into the future.” …
Ellen Gibson – harmony
“I’m not striving to perform perfectly; I’m just looking for harmony.” ~Ellen Gibson
William Ralph Inge – society
“A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.” ~William Ralph Inge
Irish Blessings
“May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside …
Phyllis McGinley – heart
“Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.” ~Phyllis McGinley
James Earl Jones – heart
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.” ~James Earl Jones
Thought for Today – Becoming Great
“The elevated aim of doing more and speaking less will make you great.” ~Thought for Today-UK
Flora Whittemore – door
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” ~Flora Whittemore
Simone de Beauvoir – woman of strength
“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to …
Thought for Today – True Wealth
“Even more valuable than physical wealth is the wealth of spiritual love.” !Thought for Today-UK
Beverly Sills – big grin
“I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn’t matter.” …
Thought for Today – Take A Moment
“Take a moment whenever you remember just to stop. Be still and silent. Sense the quietness of that moment and visualise yourself stepping into an …
Michael Nolan – heart
“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those.” ~Michael Nolan
Maxine Hong Kingston – hard work
“The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.” ~Maxine Hong Kingston
Jean Giraudoux – sincerity
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.” ~Jean Giraudoux
Carlos A. Urbizo – stand and stoop
“Stoop and you’ll be stepped on; stand tall and you’ll be shot at.” ~Carlos A. Urbizo
Dan Waldschmidt – worth being
“You CAN be all you imagine yourself to be. You WILL be everything you believe you are worth being.” ~Dan Waldschmidt
Thought for Today – Talk Lovingly To Yourself
“Learning to talk properly to the self is a spiritual endeavour. When you make a mistake, do you talk lovingly to yourself in your mind, …
Eulalio Diaz – heart
“We live in a broken world. Many of us are nursing broken hearts, living half a life as our soul remains asleep.” ~Eulalio Diaz, CW-FB, …
Steve Greene – heart
“The human heart is easily swayed at the hand of emotion. We dare not leave the outcome to chance. We must chose in advance or …
Irma Boza – decisions
“Never look back at where you’ve been and the mistakes you’ve made. Look in front of you where you’re going to be and the good …
Leah Dancel – self
“Anger reveals the wound of inner self; laughter heals the interior of that self” ~Leah Dancel
Jamie Paolinetti – limitation
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” ~Jamie Paolinetti
David Hume – sweat and blood
“It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place;it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.” ~David Hume
Niccolo Machiavelli – one who inspires
“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.” ~Niccolo Machiavelli
Carol Shields – just be
“Go for long walks,indulge in hot baths,Question your assumptions,be kind to yourself,live for the moment,loosen up, scream,curse the world,count your blessings,Just let go,Just be.” ~Carol …
W.B. Yeats – revelation
“Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold …. surly some revelation is at hand.” ~W.B. Yeats
Andre Maurois – habit
“Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.” ~Andre Maurois
Sudie Back – curious
“Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.” ~Sudie Back
Walter Anderson – trust
“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” ~Walter Anderson
Richard Burton – false friendship
“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports” …
Karl Marx – solid
“All that is solid melts into air.” ~Karl Marx
Ogden Nash – loving cup
“To keep love brimming in the loving cup, when you’re wrong admit it and when you’re right shut up!” ~Ogden Nash
Gustave Flaubert – dog’s life
“Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.” ~Gustave Flaubert
Douglas Dodo Monsanto – water
“Water – A God Given Gift for Life.” ~Douglas Dodo Monsanto, CW-FB, 20 January 2012
James Horner and Will Jennings – dreams
“If we hold on together, our dreams will never die. ~”James Horner and Will Jennings, FB-CW – Iligan City via Oscar A Erasquin
Francois Mauriac – destiny
“No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.” ~Francois Mauriac
Paul Meyer – success
“Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.” ~Paul Meyer
Robert Charles Whitehead – malice
“Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.” ~Robert Charles Whitehead