INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make deserts bloom and man to grow to greater dignity as a human being we can do it! ”
Eleanor Roosevelt
IMAGINE
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
Leo Rosten
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
Nelson Henderson
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.”
Margaret Becker
HELPING OTHERS
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
William Penn
HELPING OTHERS
“In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance. ”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
HELPING OTHERS
“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
Confucius
DO YOUR PART
“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. ”
Therese of Lisieux
DO YOUR PART
“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received-only what you have given: a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”
Saint Francis of Assisi
SERVICE
“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”
Marian Wright Edelman
SERVICE
“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
Albert Schweitzer
SERVICE
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
Rabindranath Tagore
SERVICE
“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
ENCOURAGEMENT
“The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, tender loving care has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.”
Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D.
HEALTH
“The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.”
Kurdish saying
HEALTH
“The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order.”
Henry Ward Beecher
HEALTH
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.”
Monica Baldwin
INSPIRATION
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.”
Dag Hammarskjold
INSPIRATION
“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
James Thurber
INSPIRATION
“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Thurman
MOTIVATION
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Joseph Addison
MOTIVATION
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
MOTIVATION
“Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
“Love yourself, respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what other people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.”
Marcus Allen
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
“This above all-to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
“I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can't change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.”
Charles de Lint
REACHING OUT
“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
Vera Nazarian
