Inspirational Quotes
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
The best changes often start as a single, simple thought. Think big, and discover the ways to make your dreams real.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
-Anonymous
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
- J. Richard Clarke
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Anonymous
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
- Dorothy Day
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 5:15 (see also v.14- 16)
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
- Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
- Welsh Proverb
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
- Zen Proverb
Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
- Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
- Hugh Prather
If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
- Proverb
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Shira Tehrani
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
- Ella Williams
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
- Anonymous
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
- Karl G. Maeser
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
-Anonymous
You really can change the world if you care enough.
- Marion Wright Edelman
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
- Anonymous
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
- David O. McKay
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
- Iranian Proverb
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
