365 Inspirational Quotes by Althea Press

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGINS. EVERYTHING STARTS HERE, TODAY. --DAVID NICHOLLS, AUTHOR

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It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.

DALAI LAMA, BUDDHIST MONK

 

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands—and then eat just one of the pieces.

JUDITH VIORST, AUTHOR

 

After all, there are no mistakes in life, only lessons.

LYNDA RENHAM, AUTHOR

 

Some quick advice for success in life: Don’t be afraid, be amazing.

DR. CUTHBERT SOUP, AUTHOR

 

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.

MANOJ ARORA, AUTHOR

 

When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t.

DAN PEARCE, AUTHOR

 

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, U.S.

 

BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU’RE HALFWAY THERE.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, U.S. PRESIDENT

 

A PERSON WHO NEVER MADE A MISTAKE NEVER TRIED ANYTHING NEW.

ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICIST

 

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

EPICURUS, PHILOSOPHER

 

 

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

HERMANN HESSE, AUTHOR

 

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.

EMMA DONOGHUE, AUTHOR

 

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

MAHATMA GANDHI, ACTIVIST

 

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

STEVE JOBS, COFOUNDER OF APPLE INC.

 

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

JOHN GREEN, AUTHOR

 

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

DR. STEVE MARABOLI, BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST

 

NEVER ACCEPT LIMITATIONS.

JAKE BYRNE, ATHLETE

 

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, AUTHOR

 

 

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

TONI CADE BAMBARA, AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST

 

 

You are the sky. Everything else–it’s just the weather.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN, BUDDHIST TEACHER AND AUTHOR

 

 

NOT ALL THOSE WHO WANDER ARE LOST.

J.R.R. TOLKIEN, AUTHOR

 

 

And human will is the strongest force ever created. There are those born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.

SHERRILYN KENYON, AUTHOR

 

It’s high time you were shown that you really don’t know all there is to be known.

DR. SEUSS, AUTHOR

 

THE POSITIVE THINKER SEES THE INVISIBLE, FEELS THE INTANGIBLE, AND ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE.

WINSTON CHURCHILL, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

 

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

ALPHONSE KARR, AUTHOR

 

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA, BUDDHIST SAGE

 

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, U.S. PRESIDENT

 

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

CORMAC MCCARTHY, AUTHOR

 

 

When someone steals another’s clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? 

BASIL OF CAESAREA, SAINT

 

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, NATURALIST

 

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, SAINT

 

THE BEST TIME TO PLANT A TREE WAS 20 YEARS AGO. THE NEXT BEST TIME IS NOW. 

CHINESE PROVERB

 

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

OSCAR WILDE, AUTHOR

 

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

G. K. CHESTERTON, AUTHOR

 

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again, and can take off on your own.

JULIA CHILD, CHEF

 

THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE DARK THAT WASN’T THERE WHEN THE LIGHTS WERE ON.

ROD SERLING, SCREENWRITER

 

Curb your fretting, tadpole, or the frog of your future will fail to croak.

PAUL COLLINS, AUTHOR

 

THE WATER DOESN’T KNOW HOW OLD YOU ARE.

DARA TORRES, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

 

IT’S TIME TO START LIVING THE LIFE YOU’VE IMAGINED.

HENRY JAMES, AUTHOR

 

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of unknown things. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality.

ISABEL ALLENDE, AUTHOR

 

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

WILLIAM HAZLITT, ESSAYIST

 

PAIN IS INEVITABLE. SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL.

HARUKI MURAKAMI, AUTHOR

 

Through pain I’ve learned to comfort suffering men.

VIRGIL, POET

 

Patience is a conquering virtue.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, POET

 

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty. Who cares?

TINA FEY, COMEDIAN

 

 

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

BABE RUTH, ATHLETE

 

If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.

ANTHONY ROBBINS, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

 

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

HARPER LEE, AUTHOR

 

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.

THE QURAN

 

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

FRANK MCCOURT, AUTHOR

 

THE UNIVERSE DOESN’T ALLOW PERFECTION.

STEPHEN HAWKING, PHYSICIST

 

 

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation.

MALCOLM GLADWELL, AUTHOR

 

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, SOCIAL ACTIVIST

 

INDEPENDENCE IS MY HAPPINESS, THE WORLD IS MY COUNTRY, AND MY RELIGION IS TO DO GOOD.

THOMAS PAYNE, POLITICAL ACTIVIST

 

It does not take many words to tell the truth.

SITTING BULL, LAKOTA CHIEF

 

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

JACK KEROUAC, AUTHOR

 

 

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

KAHLIL GIBRAN, AUTHOR

 

IF I’M SINCERE TODAY, WHAT DOES IT MATTER IF I REGRET IT TOMORROW?

JOSÉ SARAMAGO, AUTHOR

 

 

When you stare at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

AS GOOD AS IT GETS

 

 

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

VINCE LOMBARDI, ATHLETE

 

 

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.

FERNANDO PESSOA AS ALBERTO CAEIRO, POET

 

I would like to be remembered, well … the Mexicans have a phrase, Feo fuerte y formal. Which means he was ugly, strong, and had dignity.

JOHN WAYNE, ACTOR

 

 

PARENTHOOD … IT’S ABOUT GUIDING THE NEXT GENERATION, AND FORGIVING THE LAST.

PETER KRAUSE, ACTOR

 

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

EDGAR ALLAN POE, AUTHOR

 

 

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.

ANNE FRANK, DIARIST

 

AS COAL PRESSURED INTO PEARLS BY OUR WEIGHTY EXISTENCE. BEAUTY THAT AROSE OUT OF PAIN.

SUZANNE COLLINS, AUTHOR

 

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

RAQUEL CEPEDA, JOURNALIST

 

THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK. READ BEFORE YOU THINK.

FRAN LEBOWITZ, AUTHOR

 

 

LET US LEARN TO SHOW OUR FRIENDSHIP FOR A MAN WHEN HE IS ALIVE AND NOT AFTER HE IS DEAD.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, AUTHOR

 

One of the things my parents taught me, and I’ll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself.

WILMA MANKILLER, CHEROKEE CHIEF

 

I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, AUTHOR

 

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

ANDRÉ GIDE, AUTHOR

 

I MAY NOT HAVE GONE WHERE I INTENDED TO GO, BUT I THINK I HAVE ENDED UP WHERE I NEEDED TO BE.

DOUGLAS ADAMS, AUTHOR

 

 

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.

JULIE ANDREWS, ACTOR

 

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

FRANCIS OF ASSISI, SAINT

 

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain. . . .To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices—today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

KEVYN AUCOIN, MAKEUP ARTIST

 

To understand all is to forgive all.

EVELYN WAUGH, AUTHOR

 

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, AUTHOR

 

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others.

GEORGE WASHINGTON, U.S. PRESIDENT

 

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

GARTH STEIN, AUTHOR

 

 

We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, ASTROPHYSICIST

 

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

MAYA ANGELOU, AUTHOR

 

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that somehow pertains to our questions. This especially applies to what we used to call bad things. . . . The challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative. 

JAMES REDFIELD, AUTHOR

 

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH

 

AT FIRST, DREAMS SEEM IMPOSSIBLE, THEN IMPROBABLE, AND EVENTUALLY INEVITABLE.

CHRISTOPHER REEVE, ACTOR

 

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I’m not even sure is important to me.

LAUREN GRAHAM, ACTOR

 

If you don’t know what you’re willing to die for, then you don’t know what you’re living for.

NOAH WEINBERG, RABBI

 

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride.

KAREN HORNEY, PSYCHOANALYST

 

RECEIVE WITH SIMPLICITY EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU.

RASHI, BIBLE SCHOLAR

 

 

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but . . . they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

ALEX ROGERS, AUTHOR

 

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

OVID, POET

 

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

SAADI, POET

 

We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.

MURIEL BARBERY, AUTHOR

 

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

DEEPAK CHOPRA, AUTHOR

 

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

MARK BURNETT, TELEVISION PRODUCER

 

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.

JOHN WOODEN, COACH

 

I’ve come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.

KIRSTEN HUBBARD, AUTHOR

 

Remember this, where there is life there is hope. You’re alive. Embrace this, because you can do anything while there is breath in your body.

LOLA JAYE, AUTHOR

 

I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

QUEEN LATIFAH, PERFORMER

 

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I’d still do it—for fun and for free.

SUSAN E. ISAACS, AUTHOR

 

 

SEEK YOUR OWN ANSWERS IN LIFE, AND NOT WHAT OTHERS DICTATE TO YOU.

JEMINA AKHTAR, AUTHOR

 

The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

ANONYMOUS

 

Motivation gets you going; inspiration keeps you going.

TODD STOCKER, AUTHOR

 

No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: “The persistent drip wears through stone.”

KENTETSU TAKAMORI, AUTHOR

 

It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.

JENNIFER E. SMITH, AUTHOR

 

While no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a new ending.

CHICO XAVIER, MEDIUM

 

GREAT HEROES NEED GREAT SORROWS AND BURDENS, OR HALF THEIR GREATNESS GOES UNNOTICED.

PETER S. BEAGLE, AUTHOR

 

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

CHARLES DARWIN, NATURALIST

 

The truth is, we can find wisdom and inspiration from many different people and places; we just need to be looking for it.

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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. 

Gordon Parks, Photographer