Inspirational Quotations

These quotations offer inspiring and uplifting wisdom and will hopefully brighten your day.

Showing 217 through 234 of 234 quotations in this category.

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Take only memories; leave nothing but footprints."

-Chief Seattle

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

-David Lloyd George

"To be clear-headed rather than confused; lucid rather than obscure; rational rather than otherwise; and to be neither more, nor less, sure of things than is justifiable by argument or evidence. That is worth trying for."

-Geoffrey Warnock

"If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and ... if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse....I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist."

-Ayn Rand

"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going."

-unknown

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)"

-Mark Twain

"Know people for who they are rather than for what they are."

-Anthony J. D'Angelo

"A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"o we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony."

-Ruth Bernhard

"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

-unknown

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."

-Austin Phelps

"The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time."

-E. R. Eddison

"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."

-John Irving

"Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing."

-Richard Bach

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

-Euripides

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

-Montaigne