Inspirational Quotations

 

Thank you for everything. I have no complaint whatsoever.

Zen master Sono

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant,
is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

Lao Tse

That which most concerns and worries you — your survival —
is the only certainty you have.

Richard Bach

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature affects the cure.

Voltaire

The best advice to a preacher:  try not to be.

Source unknown

The best cure for anger is delay.

Seneca

The best surfer is the one having the most fun.

Teaching motto of surfing school

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Brendan Francis

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

Chinese saying

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Gene Brown

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

The challenge is to believe your dreams in the center of illusion.

Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

The critical voice is not your own.

Amelia Kinkade

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin

The difference between a boss and leader: A boss says, “Go!”  A leader says, “Let’s go!”

Source unknown

The difference between me and others is that I am willing to do what I am good at.

10-year-old art prodigy
Alexandra Nashita

The eye through which you see God, is the same eye through which God sees you.

Meister Eckhart

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The gift is you.

John Denver

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

St. Ignatius

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches,
but reveal to them their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to
tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.

O.A. Battista 

The halls of heaven ring with the laughter of the saints

Hilarion

The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is
getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Source unknown

The hardest work you have to do is to learn to depend on your inner self
because you have been taught to look always to someone else.

Venice Bloodworth

The head alone is a tyrant. The heart alone is chaotic.
The marriage of the two is mastery.

Mary
(Carla Gordan)

The holiest spot on earth is where an ancient hatred
has become a present love.

A Course in Miracles

The hours that make us happy make us wise.

John Masefield

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

The land has eyes and teeth, and knows the truth.

Fijian proverb

The living body has an ability not possessed by any machine. The body has the ability to repair and heal itself.

George W. Crile

The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.

Emerson

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Source unknown

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always . . . a charlatan.
The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself,
and he wants others to be themselves also.

Elbert Hubbard

The march to freedom is irreversible.

Nelson Mandela

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. 

Henry Miller

 

   

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