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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspiration
198 people liked it

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, lessons, life, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
206 people liked it

"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: inspiration
72 people liked it

""If a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.""
— Thoreau

tags: inspiration
64 people liked it

"There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings."
— Wendell Berry

tags: inspiration
32 people liked it

"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame ...
"
— Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon or Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those Who Think)

tags: inspiration
30 people liked it

"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager."
— Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality
94 people liked it

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
— Kalu Iche Kalu

tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth
74 people liked it

"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

tags: experience, inspiration, unschooling
12 people liked it

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.
"
— Brian Tracy

tags: courage, inspiration, potential
3 people liked it

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
— Lance Armstrong (Every Second Counts)

tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
229 people liked it

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."
— George Herman Ruth

tags: hard, inspiration, teamwork, work
99 people liked it

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: goals, inspiration
30 people liked it

"For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another's life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity."
— Sitting Bull

tags: inspiration, native-americans
24 people liked it

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: dedication, inspiration
43 people liked it

""Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.""
— E. Joseph Cossman

tags: goals, inspiration
27 people liked it

"We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands. . . . searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living. . . . for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences. . . . Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.

--Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969"
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

tags: fear, future, inspiration
9 people liked it

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
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— Robert G. Ingersoll

tags: hope, inspiration
9 people liked it

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents."
— Eric Hoffer

tags: inspiration, talent
7 people liked it

"Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still."
— Chinese Proverb

tags: education, growth, inspiration, learning, life
42 people liked it

"I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still."
— Ashton Kutcher

tags: inspiration, life
38 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,504 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,032 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,817 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,416 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,392 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,829 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
5,176 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

4,890 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,628 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,094 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,781 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,710 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,283 people liked it

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

tags: fear, inspirational
3,017 people liked it

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you."
— Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity
2,584 people liked it

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational
2,549 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,459 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,151 people liked it

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