Our past from yesterday throughout generations of human history, still offer comfort, words of wisdom, inspiration, advice, and the gift of insight into the hearts and thoughts of us all. You may not see it every day, or even notice it’s presence but our lives are lived, fueled and guided by the wisdom of yesterdays through the quotes of the people who have gone before us.
We will take a look at some famous inspirational quotes from around the globe. Quotes that will stop and make you think, that may bring a tear to your eye, and even some that are truly words to live by. It is up to you how you use this knowledge, bettering yourself, calming conflict (internal and/or external), realizing that you aren’t alone, or inspiring you to make changes in your life, your heart and your world.
What type of inspirational quotes are you looking for: Life - Love - Religion - Death - Success
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death” Albert Einstein
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today” James Dean
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde
“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything” Win Borden
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” Tom Bodett
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you have gained, you lose something else.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” Flora Whittemore
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” Erma Bombeck
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” Robert Byrne
“Life is simple, its just not easy.” Anonymous
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” Albert Einstein
“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.” Alice Walker
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” Anais Nin
“The most decisive actions of our life… are most often unconsidered actions.” Andre’ Gide
“Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.” Anne Wilson Schaef
“Wars and elections are both too big and to small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.” Barbara Kingsolver
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.” Benjamin Franklin
“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” Bertrand Russell
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” Kevin Arnold
“The most important things in life aren’t things.” Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.” Alex Tan
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.” Richard Bach
“Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.” Cherralea Morgan
“If we could see the miracle of a singe flower clearly, our whole life would change.” Buddha
“Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” Carl Sandburg
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude toward us.” John N. Mitchell
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” Keri Russell
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” Horace
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live” Anonymous
“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.” Arthur Rubinstein
“In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than o not know and always wonder.” Anonymous
“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” Zelda Fitzgerald
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” Mother Teresa
“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.” Charles Morgan
“Love has no desire but o fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” Kahlil Gibran
“I hold it true, whatev’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Tennyson
“Love at first sigh is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” Amy Bloom
“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” Ann Landers
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bles the ne who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” Barbara De Angelis
“Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.” Bible - I Corinthians 13:4-8
“Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” Dale Evans
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.” Anonymous
“Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.” Anonymous
Quotes for Religion and Faith:
“True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.” Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
“Patience with others is Love,
Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith.” Adel Bestavros
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” Albert Einstein
“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.” George Seaton
“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” Mother Teresa
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” Carl Sandburg
“True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.” A. Powell Davies
“The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.” Abraham Joshua Heschel
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” Abraham Lincoln
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” Amelia Burr
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” Anais Nin
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” From a headstone in Ireland
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.” William Shakespeare
“Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” C. S. Lewis
“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.” Rita Mae Brown
“Grief can’t e shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.” Jareb Teague
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea you life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” Swami Vivekananda
“Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.” Corita Kent
“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore.” Dale Carnegie
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” Christopher Morley
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” Vincent T. Lombardi
“Success is a journey, not a destination.” Ben Sweetland
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck sows a poverty of ambition. It asks to little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” Barack Obama
“There are no gains without pains.” Benjamin Franklin
“Yesterday I dare to struggle. Today I dare to win.” Bernadette Devlin
“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” David Brinkley
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” George Sheehan
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” Pablo Picasso
There is one last thought I would like to leave you with, and it is possibly the most important and famous inspirational quote of all times ---Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
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