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

inspirational

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

Ideas shape the course of history.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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

Enthusiasm moves the world.

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

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

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.

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.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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.

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

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

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

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

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

Our ideals are our better selves.

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

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

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

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

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.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

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

A place for everything, everything in its place.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Belief creates the actual fact.

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

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

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

Great hopes make great men.

Hope is a waking dream.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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

The best way out is always through.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

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

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

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

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

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

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

We convince by our presence.

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

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