Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

inspirational

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Hope is a waking dream.

Great hopes make great men.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

The best way out is always through.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

We convince by our presence.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Ideas shape the course of history.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Enthusiasm moves the world.