Soul Stirring Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Without inspiration the best powers oI the mind remain dormant. There is a Iuel in us which needs to
be ignited with sparks.
ohann Gottfried Von Herder
LiIe is a pure Ilame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown
Try not to become a man oI success but a man oI value.
Albert Einstein

The more diIIiculties one has to encounter, within and without, the more signiIicant and the higher in
inspiration his liIe will be.
Horace Bushnell
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name oI inspiration?
George Eliot
Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon Suenes
The power oI imagination makes us inIinite.
ohn Muir
The Iirst step in the acquisition oI wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the
Iourth practice, the IiIth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

The seat oI knowledge is in the head, oI wisdom,
in the heart.
William Hazlitt
There are three kinds oI people in the world, the wills, the won`ts and the can`ts. The
Iirst accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third Iail in
everything.
Eclectic Magazine

You miss 100 oI the shots you don`t take.Wayne Gretzky
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows
Iast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
osiah Gilbert Holland
t is with many enterprises as with striking Iire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated
eIIorts, and oIten at the instant when we despaired oI success.
rancoise de Maintenon
Heaven never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.
Robert Leighton
Every noble work is at Iirst impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
When one door oI happiness closes, another opens, but oIten we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one that has been opened Ior us.
Helen Keller

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the Ieeling oI happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit oI happiness; it is generally the by-product oI
other activities.
Aldous Huxley
n the hopes oI reaching the moon men Iail to see the Ilowers that blossom at their Ieet.
Albert Schweitzer
The man is happiest who lives Irom day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness oI
liIe.
Euripides
Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution oI our nature; it is a running stream, and not a
stagnant pool.
ohn M Good

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner oI traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition oI mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin ranklin
t was a high counsel that once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are aIraid to
do.The rays oI happiness, like those oI light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W Longfellow
t was a high counsel that once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are aIraid to
do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Storms make oaks take roots. Proverb
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage oI discovery, guided each by a private chart, oI
which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, thereIore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Men`s best successes come aIter their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

The best way out is always through
Robert rost
Fortune Iavors the brave.Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B Sprague
Fortune Iavors the brave.
Publius Terence
Believe with all oI your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett Marden
We are still masters oI our Iate.
We are still captains oI our souls.
Winston Churchill
othing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
LiIe is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

LiIe is like a game oI cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is
Iree will.
awaharal Nehru
Our liIe`s a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas
The geat blessing oI mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our
eyes, and like people in the dark, we Iall Ioul upon the very thing we search Ior,
without Iinding it.
Seneca
(7 BC - 65 AD
Most oI the shadows oI this liIe are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unrest oI spirit is a mark oI liIe; one problem aIter another presents itselI and in the
solving oI them we can Iind our greatest pleasure.
Kal Menninger
AIter the game,
the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb
LiIe is like a library owned by the author.
n it are a Iew books which he wrote himselI,
but most oI them were written Ior him.
Harry Emerson osdick

LiIe`s a voyage that`s homeward bound.
Herman Melville
One way to get the most out oI liIe is
to look upon it as an adventure.
William eather
LiIe is a succession oI lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no classes in liIe Ior beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most
diIIicult.
Rainer Maria Rilke
As grow to understand liIe less and less,
learn to love it more and more.
ules Renard
'True religion is the liIe we live, not the creed we proIess. Wright
'The challenge is to believe your dreams in the center oI illusion. Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast
'Love is a Iorce that connects us to every strand oI the universe, an unconditional state that
characterizes human nature, a Iorm oI knowledge that is always there Ior us iI only we can open
ourselves to it. Emily H Sell

'ature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece oI her Iabric
reveals the organization oI the entire tapestry. Richard eynman
'Enlightenment does not ask you to be perIect; it simply asks you to Iind perIection right where you
stand. Alan Cohen
'The meeting oI two personalities is like the contact oI two chemical substances: iI there is any
reaction, both are transIormed. Carl ung
'Kind words produce their own image in men`s souls; and a beautiIul image it is. They soothe and
quiet and comIort the hearer. They shame him out oI his sour, morose, unkind Ieelings. We have not
yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. Blaise Pascal
'My proIession is to be always on the alert to Iind God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to
attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature. Henry David Thoreau

'The glory oI Iriendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy oI
companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else
believes in him and is willing to trust him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
'The best and most beautiIul things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be Ielt
with the heart. Helen Keller
'To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and
burns. Ralph Waldo Emerson
'There is a Iorm oI laughter that springs Irom the heart, heard every day in the merry voice oI
childhood, the expression oI a laughter loving spirit that deIies analysis by the philosopher, which
has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social signiIicance. Bubbling spontaneously
Irom the heart oI child or man. Without egotism and Iull oI Ieeling, laughter is the music oI liIe. Sir
William Osler

' wanted a perIect ending.. ow, `ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don`t rhyme, and
some stories don`t have a clear beginning, middle and end. LiIe is about not knowing, having to
change, taking the moment and making the best oI it, without knowing what`s going to happen next.
Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner
'Be inspired with the belieI that liIe is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that
we are to shuIIle through as we can, but an elevated and loIty destiny. William E Gladstone
'I accept you as you are, will make you worse; however iI treat you as though you are what you
are capable oI becoming, help you become that. ohann Wolfgang Von Goethe
'Twenty years Irom now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn`t do than by the ones
you did do. So throw oII the bowlines. Sail away Irom the saIe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

'Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit oI science becomes convinced that a spirit is
maniIest in the laws oI the universe. Albert Einstein
'LiIe is like a Iinger, pointing to the Moon. I you look at the Iinger. you will miss all the heavenly
glory. Irom Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee tells his pupil
'Become a possibilitarian. o matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights
and see the possibilities. Always see them, Ior they`re always there. Norman Vincent Peale
' love to think oI nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us every
hour, iI we will only tune in. George Washington Carver

'This is my simple religion. There is no need Ior temples; no need Ior complicated philosophy. Our
own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. The Dalai Lama
't`s OK to have butterIlies in your stomach. Just get them to Ily in Iormation.Helen Keller
'Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good Ior someone,
whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it`s leaving. Ior awhile and the love is shown, then,
in the pain given. For pain is a lesson best learned Irom the one who loves you the most. Linda
Goodman, Gooberz
'A human being is an expression oI liIe, bringing light, reIlecting love across whatever dimension it
chooses to touch, in whatever Iorm it chooses to take. Humanity isn`t a physical description, it`s a
spiritual goal. t`s not something we`re given, it`s something we earn. Mashara, One
'The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal,
know.. Kahlil Gibran
'He who knows others is learned; he who knows himselI is wise. Lao Tzu

'This world is but a canvas to our imaginations. Henry David Thoreau
'A mind that has been stretched will never return to it`s original dimension. Albert Einstein
'Meditation means learning how to get out oI this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn Irom it,
and then use its energies to guide us. on Kabat Zin
'The secret oI health Ior both mind and body is not to mourn Ior the past, worry about the Iuture, or
anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Buddha
'Consult not your Iears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your Irustrations, but about
your unIulIilled potential. Concern yourselI not with what you tried and Iailed, but with what is still
possible Ior you to do. Pope ohn XXIII
'We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening
to, worthy oI our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity,
wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ee Cummings
'I a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen oI the world, and that
his heart is no island cut oII Irom other lands, but a continent that joins to them. rancis Bacon
't is never too late to be what you might have been. George Elliot
There is only one happiness in liIe to love and be loved. Amandine Dupin
'How Iar that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. William
Shakespeare
'Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having Iew wants.Epicurus 341 BC-270
BC ancient Greek philosopher
'Those who bring sunshine to the lives oI others cannot keep it Irom themselves.ames M Barrie
'By cultivating the beautiIul we scatter the seeds oI heavenly Ilowers, as by doing good we cultivate
those that belong to humanity. Vernon Howard
'Truly have looked in the very heart oI darkness and reIused to yield to its paralyzing inIluence, but
in spirit am one oI those who walk the morning. Helen Keller

'Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but Iar more diIIicult still, to leave
unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin ranklin
'As long as you`re actively pursuing your dream with a practical plan, you`re still achieving, even iI
it Ieels as though you`re going nowhere Iast. ts been my experience that at the very moment Ieel
like giving up, `m only one step Irom a breakthrough. Hang on long enough and circumstances will
change, too. Trust in yourselI, your dream and spirit. Sarah Ban Breathnach
'Don`t let the Iear oI the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way oI your doing it.
The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl
Nightingale
'Learning is Iinding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching
is reminding others that they know it just as well as you do. We are all learners, doers and
teachers. Richard Bach, llusions
'Music is well said to be the speech oI angels; in Iact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man
is Ielt to be so divine. t brings us near to the inIinite.Thomas Carlyle
But godliness with contentment is great gain.1 Timothy 6:6
A happy heart makes the Iace cheerIul, but heartache crushes the spirit.Proverbs 15:13
I you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as have obeyed my Father`s commands
and remain in his love. have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be
complete. My command is this: Love each other as have loved you.ohn 15:10-12

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the
encouragement oI the Scriptures we might have hope.Romans 15:4
With God all things are possible. - Matthew 19:26
Come unto me, ye who are weary and overburdened, and will give you rest. Matthew 11:28