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concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.-- Oprah Winfrey

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.-- Helen Keller

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.-- James Allen

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any. -- Danielle Fotopoulis

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.-- Denis Waitley

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.-- Christiane Northrup

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 something that I can do.-- Helen Keller

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.-- Stephen Grellet

If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life. -- Daisaku Ikeda

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.-- Henry David Thoreau

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.-- Albert Camus

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.-- Ralph Waldo

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. -- Jenny Craig

Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.-- Daisaku Ikeda

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.-- Elbert Hubbard

Taking action is how you GIVE your gift and live a life of true service to yourself and others. And that doesn't mean that your life's work has to be something that seems grand and noble. The real key to being of service and living your purpose is simply to do what you LOVE to do -- whatever it may be.-- Rebecca Fine

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.-- James Allen

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.-- Amelia Earhart

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things. -- Napoleon Hill

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.-- Mark Twain

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.-- Steve Jobs

Heart Quotes

Are you looking for heart quotes? Here's a collection of wonderful quotes about the wisdom of your heart and the importance of listening to one's heart.

Do you wonder about the depth of your heart? Do you let your heart lead the way, or do you usually let your head make the decisions for you? Have you encountered situations whereby your mind told you one thing but your heart said otherwise?

Do you feel happier when you follow your heart? Do you let your heart take you down a path where your mind would be against?

If you are one who wants to follow your heart but are fearful of the risks you'll be taking, I hope this series of heart quotes will shed some light on the wisdom of your heart...

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.-- Octavio Paz

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.-- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.-- Mother Teresa

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.-- Washington Irving

A person's world is only as big as their heart.-- Tanya A. Moore

All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.-- Carlos Castaneda

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your

grief.-- Kahlil Gibran

Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.-- Aristotle

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.-- Mevlana Rumi

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.-- Shigenori Kameoka

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.-- Author Unknown

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.-- William Shakespeare

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.-- James Allen

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.-- Robert Tizon

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.-- Marc Chagall

If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old.-- James A. Garfield

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.-- Marilyn vos Savant

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.-- Antonio Porchia

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.-- Mahatma Gandhi

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.-- Author Unknown

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.-- Author Unknown

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.-- Author Unknown

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.-- Zelda Fitzgerald

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.-- James Earl Jones

Only do what your heart tells you.-- Princess Diana

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.-- Paulo Coelho

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.-- Helen Keller

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.-- Author Unknown

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.-- Jacques Benigne Bossuel

The heart is forever making the head its fool.-- François de la Rochefoucauld

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.-- Robert Valett

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.-- Deepak Chopra

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.-- Michael Nolan

What is uttered from the heart alone,Will win the hearts of others to your own.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?-- Tori Amos

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.-- Confucius

Scrapbooking Quotes and Scrapbook Quotes

A day without scrapbooking is a day without sunshine.-- Author Unknown

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.-- Hortense Calisher

A moment lasts all of that second, but the memory lives on forever.-- Author Unknown

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.-- Diane Arbus

A picture is poem without words.-- Confucius

Above all, art should be fun.-- Alexander Calder

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.-- M.C. Richards

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.-- Robert Henri

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.-- John Updike

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.-- Virginia Woolf

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment...-- Alfred North Whitehead

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.-- Mason

As we reflect on days gone by, we learn that it's the shared moments and simple pleasures that matter most of all.-- Flavia

Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart.-- Flavia

Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks.-- Author Unknown

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.-- Mary Lou Cook

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.-- Bruce Catton

Every man's memory is his private literature.-- Aldous Huxley

Every day of your life is a page of your history.-- Author Unknown

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.-- Saul Bellow

Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.-- Arthur Gordon

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.-- Dexter Perkins

History is who we are and why we are the way we are.-- David McCullough

How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.-- Lady Bird Johnson

Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies,Scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our Hearts!-- Author Unknown

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past…-- Eduardo Galeano

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.-- Rebecca West

I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode... A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring even to the stranger...Well put together scrapbooks and photo albums have warmed more hearts than any bound book... Without a good scrapbook, much that's memorable in life is forgotten or damaged or lost...-- Don Aslett

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.-- Miles Davis

If you don't know your family's history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.-- Michael Crichton

In art, as in life, everything is possible so long as it is based on love.-- Marc Chagall

In nothing are we as rich as in our memories; they are pictures painted by our hearts, and nothing can erase them.-- Flavia

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.-- Ted Koppel

Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts!-- Author Unknown

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.-- Thomas Fuller

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.-- Cathy Allen

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.-- Henry David Thoreau

Memories are like sand castles - only by putting them in a safe place can you prevent them from washing away.-- Author Unknown

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.-- Oscar Wilde

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.-- Pierce Harris

My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once too young to remember; I am making scrapbooks for my family because one day I may be too old to remember.-- Author Unknown

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.-- Doug Larson

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.-- Ansel Adams

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.-- Diane Ackerman

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.-- John Jay Chapman

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.-- John Ruskin

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.-- Jean de Boufflers

Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist.-- Author Unknown

Scrapbooking isn't about scraps of paper and photos. Scrapbooking is about scraps of life - yours and those special to you.-- Rebecca Sower

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.-- Frank Deford

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.-- Ashleigh Brilliant

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.-- David Thelen

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.-- Thalassa Cruso

The years go by and love grows with each memory we make.-- Flavia

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.-- Seneca

We do not remember days; we remember moments.-- Cesare Pavese

We do not spend our money on a lot of material possessions - we spend money to create memories for our children and others we love. Those are the only things one can take away. When health is gone or someone dies... or it's a hard year at school, the memories are still there...to open the windows of a child's mind...to make him or her laugh and feel warm and strong inside where it counts.-- Ann Kiernel Anderson

When life gives you scraps, make something with them.-- Author Unknown

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one; each day brings a miracle of it own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracles.-- Paulo Coelh

Happy Smile and Laughter Quotes

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Laughter, some said it's the best medicine in the world.

So start smiling and laughing as much as you can. Have a hearty laugh over every amusing situation. Laugh even at yourself and smile at the simplest pleasures in your life.

With smiles and laughter, your days will become lighter, more joyous and more bearable even on those hay-wired days. Your smiling face looks much more appealing and beautiful too.

Give away your smiles freely and in abundance. Spread your laughter around as it's contagious.

Enjoy these smile and laughter quotes!

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.-- Author Unknown

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.-- Irish Proverb

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.-- Puzant Kevork Thomajan

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.-- Washington Irving

A laugh is a smile that bursts.-- Mary H. Waldrip

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.-- Raymond Hitchcock

A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there.-- Loma Chandler

A smile confuses an approaching frown.-- Author Unknown

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.-- Author Unknown

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.-- Phyllis Diller

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.-- Author Unknown

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.-- Charles Gordy

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.-- Author Unknown

A smile is the universal welcome.-- Max Eastman

Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.-- Author Unknown

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.-- Chris Hart

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.-- Jean Houston

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.-- Charles Reade

Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.-- Jim Beggs

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.-- Hugh Sidey

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.-- Author Unknown

Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.-- Author Unknown

Everyone smiles in the same language.-- Author Unknown

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.-- Mother Teresa

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.-- Woody Allen

I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest

moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.-- Red Skelton

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.-- Author Unknown

If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.-- Author Unknown

If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile.-- Author Unknown

If you smile at someone, they might smile back.-- Author Unknown

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.-- Andy Rooney

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either.-- Wayne Dyer

It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.-- Author Unknown

It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.-- Author Unknown

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.-- Author Unknown

Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to.-- Author Unknown

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.-- Alan Alda

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.-- Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.-- Bob Newhart

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.-- Arnold Glasow

Laughter is an instant vacation.-- Milton Berle

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.-- Henri Bergson

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.-- Josh Billings

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.-- Author Unknown

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.-- Victor Borge

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.-- Victor Hugo

Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.-- Hugh Sidey

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."-- Quincy Jones

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.-- Author Unknown

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.-- Ken Kesey

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.-- Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.-- Janet Lane

Peace begins with a smile.-- Mother Teresa

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.-- Lee Mildon

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.-- Hermione Gingold

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.-- Anna Fellows Johnston

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.-- Raymond Chandler

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.-- Walter Anderson

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.-- Gordon W. Allport

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.-- Mort Walker

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.-- W.C. Fields

That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.-- Gloria Vanderbilt

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”-- Mark Twain

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.-- e.e. cummings

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.-- Shirley MacLaine

The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.-- Author Unknown

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.-- Françoise Sagan

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.-- George Eliot

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.-- Yiddish Proverb

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.-- Abraham Lincoln

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.-- Mark Twain

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.-- Stephen King

You're never fully dressed without a smile.-- Martin Charnin

Pretty Girl Quotes and Girly Quotes to Glam Up Your Scrapbooking Pages


Sweetness and spice. Here's a lovely series of girl quotes to paint an even more colorful picture on the joy of being a girl.

As a mummy, you probably adore your girls. You can dress up your girls, doll them up, and watch in fascination at the ways they try to mimic a little woman.


Their innocence and endearing acts probably left you wondering what kind of woman will your girl grow up to be someday. Would she be pretty? Would she be happy? Would she find a good man?

Sprinkle these beautiful girl quotes into your journals, cards, scrapbooks and letters!

Let these quotes about girls express your deep emotions about the joy of having your girls in your life. Celebrate the charm of your girls with these girl quotes!

A baby girl...one of the most beautiful miracles in life, one of the greatest joys we can ever know, and one of the reasons why there is a little extra sunshine, laughter and happiness in your world today. -- Author Unknown

A Daughter Is... ...your greatest source of pride and your greatest hope for the future... The happiest moment of your life was the day she was introduced to the world.-- Bettie Meschler

A daughter is a bundle of firsts that excite and delight, giggles that come from deep inside and are always contagious, everything wonderful and precious and your love for her knows no bounds.-- Barbara Cage

A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous...full of beauty and forever beautiful...loving and caring and truly amazing.-- Deanna Beisser

A daughter is a treasure - and a cause of sleeplessness.-- Ben Sirach

A daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give.-- Laurel Atherton

A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.-- Author Unknown

A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. she can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.-- Alan Beck

A tiny daughter gives parents a life in a climate of perpetual wonder.-- Pierre Doucet

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.-- George Eliot

Be to her virtues very kind,Be to her faults a little blind.-- Matthew Prior

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.-- Jane Seymour

Courage, determination, pride...that's what little girls are made of.-- Author Unknown

Daughters are love coming from a mother vine.-- Author Unknown

Girls are giggles with freckles all over them.-- Author Unknown

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.-- Oliver Goldsmith

Girls play by the golden rule...We won the gold! We Rule!-- Author Unknown

Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye. In every gesture. dignity and love.-- John Milton

Her smile beams like sunshine, which fills our hearts with love.-- Birgit B.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.-- Louis L'Amour

How wonderful to meet such a natural little girl. She knows what she wants and she asks for it. Not like these over-civilized little pets that have to go through analysis before they can choose an ice cream soda.-- John Lee Mahin

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.-- Madonna

In every girl is a goddess.-- Francesca Lia Block

In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons there is ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.-- Joseph Addison

Invest in the future; have a child and teach her well.-- Author Unknown

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.-- Tallulah Bankhead

Like star dust glistening on fairies' wingsLittle girls dreams are of magical things.-- Sherry Larson

Little girls are just angels who haven't yet spread their wings.-- Author Unknown

Little girls are precious gifts, wrapped in love serene. Their dresses tied with sashes and futures tied with dreams.-- Author Unknown

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart. . .-- Alan Beck

Little girls bring such delight with hearts so warm and smiles so bright!-- Author Unknown

Little girls dance their way into your heart, whirling on the tips of angel wings, scattering gold dust & kisses in our paths.-- Author Unknown

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.-- Robert A. Heinlein

My name is NO NO but grandma calls me precious.-- Author Unknown

Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.-- Mason Cooley

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.-- Margaret E. Sangster

Princesses wear crowns to remind them that they are smart and beautiful because some days it's easy to forget.-- Author Unknown

Remember when all we had to do was to keep our ponytails straight and catch fireflies?-- Author Unknown

She is my joy and heart's delight.-- Robert Wever

She will fill our lives with sunshine... And our hearts with love.-- Author Unknown

She's the one all the boys loved because she lit up the room, and she's the one all the girls hated for the very same reason.-- S. Brewer

Sugar and spice and everything nice, ribbons and curls because she's a girl.-- Author Unknown

The beauty of a girl cannot be mimicked, fabricated, or created by human means, it only occurs naturally.-- Pam Callaghan

The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.-- Phyllis McGinley

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.-- Emilie Buchwald

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.-- Thomas Campion

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.-- Joan Rivers

What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, whatever that may be.-- Helen Claes

What the daughter does, the mother did.-- Jewish Proverb

When I look at my daughter I see myself...only better.-- Author Unknown

When we asked for a daughter we were sent a princess.-- Sally Huss

When you educate a man, you educate an individual, but when you educate a woman, you educate a nation.-- Johnetta B. Cole

Where shall we see a better daughter or a kinder sister or a truer friend.-- Jane Austen

You can have fun with a son,But you got to be a father to a girl.-- Oscar Hammerstein II

est Friend Quotes and Friendship Quotes


Here's a wonderful series of best friend quotes that'll will help celebrate the many ups and downs you've shared with your good friends.

Friends, some of the most important people in your life. They are there to cheer you on your victories, to pick you up after shattered pieces, to spur you on after failures and disappointments...

You don't need your friends to cure you. You probably need your friends to heal you by opening up their hearts, and warm you with their mere presence. That's friendship.

Flowers need time, sunshine and patience to grow. Likewise, friendship needs love, understanding and honesty to grow. And friends are like flowers, they add beauty and meaning to your life.

Share these friendship quotes with your good friends. Use them in your cards, scrapbooks, letters and emails.

Enjoy these friend quotes!


A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.-- Author Unknown

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. -- Frances Ward Weller

A friend hugs your heart.-- Author Unknown

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. -- Douglas Pagels

A friend is one who dislikes the same people you dislike.-- Author Unknown

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

A friend is someone who can see through you but still enjoys the show.-- Author Unknown

A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it.-- Author Unknown

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.-- Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.-- Grace Pulpit

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. -- Pam Brown

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Donna Roberts

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.-- Lois Wyse

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.-- Arnold H. Glasgow

A road to a friend's house is never long.-- Danish proverb

A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.-- Proverb

A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.-- Author Unknown

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.-- Bernard Meltzer

A true friend never gets in your way unless you are going down.-- Arnold H. Glasgow

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend!-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone.-- Maya Angelou

As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- there were times when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever..and whatever the future holds, our todays make the memories of tomorrow. So, my lifetime friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hoping that you'll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for whatever the future may hold.-- Author Unknown

As sunshine turns a flower’s head toward the sun, so your friendship lifts my spirit.-- Author Unknown

As treasured keepsakes warm the home, cherished friendships warm the heart.-- Author Unknown

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.-- George Washington

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.-- Samuel Paterson

But every road is rough to me that has no friend to cheer it.-- Elizabeth Shane

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.-- Goethe

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.-- Albert Camus

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.-- Richard Bach

Everybody needs one essential friend.-- Dr. William Glasser

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.-- Jacques Delille

Friends are family you choose for yourself. -- Author Unknown

Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. -- Author Unknown

Friends are life's finest blessings. "Friend" and "free" are from the same root word; perhaps because you are free to be yourself with a friend.-- Author Unknown

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.-- Author Unknown

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Friends make memories...the heart preserves them.-- Author Unknown

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.-- Randolph S. Bourne

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.-- Joan Walsh Anglund

Friendship gives a voice to the heart and wings to the soul.-- Author Unknown

Friendship has no name but love.-- Habib Sahabib

Friendship is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days.-- Author Unknown

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.-- Author Unknown

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.-- Cicero

Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.-- Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.-- James F. Byrnes

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief's.-- H. G. Bohn

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.-- Edmund Burke

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.-- Author Unknown

Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.-- Author Unknown

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. -- Katherine Mansfield

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.-- Cher

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.-- Charles R. Swindoll

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. -- Robert Brault

If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.-- Benjamin Franklin

In a true friend you find a second self.-- Isabelle Norton

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In the hour of misery, the eye turns to friendship. In the hour of gladness, what is our want? It is friendship.-- Walter S. Landor

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.-- Kahlil Gibran

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -- Marlene Dietrich

Laughter is the shortest distance between two friends.-- Victor Borge

Like a tree blowing in the wind, friendships can bend and waver, yet they will both remain standing if they have strong roots.-- Suzanne Long

Like creativity, friendship is a sudden spark, appreciated and protected. Chance provides the opportunity; care preserves the light.-- Timothy White

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -- Oprah Winfrey

Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart.-- Author Unknown

My friends are my estate.-- Emily Dickinson

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.-- Ludwig Van Beethoven

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, the greatest is the possession of friendship.-- Epicurus

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.-- Dinah Craik

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.-- Francine Du Plessix Gray

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. -- Sicilian Proverb

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.-- Lois L. Kaufman

Real friends don't care if you're a little different...-- Author Unknown

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. -- Emily Kimbrough

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.-- Cindy Lew

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. -- Swedish Proverb

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. -- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.-- Author Unknown

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.-- Octavia Butler

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.-- Louisa May Alcott

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.-- Fredrick Robertson

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. -- Barbara Kingsolver

The mere chink of cups and saucers turns the mind to happy repose.-- George Gissie

The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.-- Elizabeth Foley

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.-- Maya Angelou

The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.-- Katherine Mansfield

There are deep sorrows and killing cares in life, but the encouragement and love of friends were given us to make all difficulties bearable.-- Author Unknown

There are no such things as strangers. Only friends we haven't met.-- Anonymous

There are those who pass like ships in the night, who meet for a moment, then sail out of sight with never a backward glance of regret; folks we know briefly then quickly forget. Then there are friends who sail together, through quiet waters and stormy weather, helping each other though joy and through strife. And they are the kind who give meaning to life.-- Author Unknown

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.-- Bernard-Paul Heroux

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed - that can make this life a garden.-- Goethe

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.-- François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they're never dead in your heart.-- Author Unknown

True friends are those who lift you up when your heart's wings forget how to fly.-- Author Unknown

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -- Dave Tyson Gentry

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.-- Robert Louis Stevenson

We have been friends togetherIn sunshine and in shade.-- Caroline Sheridan Norton

What is a friend? I will tell you… it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.-- Frank Crane

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief

and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.-- Henri Nouwen

When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship.-- Author Unknown

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.-- Jewish Saying

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.-- Aristotle

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. -- Laurence J. Peter

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in you.-- Dale Carnegie

You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend...-- Oprah Winfrey

Your friendship is better than chocolate! Well, anyway, it's right up there.-- Julie Sutton

Teen Quotes and Teenager Quotes


Be inspired by this straight-shooting series of teen quotes.

Teenage-hood can be an awkward transitional period for your teenagers. So encourage them with these teen quotes.

As for you the mommy, your teens can be unbearable at times. They make you cry, they make you laugh, they make you feel like a failure, they make millions of emotions out of you.

Yet through it all, you still love your teens though you'll love to hate them at times. It's complicated.

No matter what, acknowledge your heartfelt emotions through this period. Use these teen quotes in your cards, scrapbooks and letters to mark down those memories!

A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.-- Henny Youngman


A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.-- Lewis B. Hershey

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.-- Virginia Satir

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.-- Ambrose Bierce

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.-- Karen Savage and Patricia Adams

Arguing with a teenager is like wrestling in the mud with a pig. Sooner or later you figure out that he/she is enjoying it.-- Author Unknown

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.-- Fran Lebowitz

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.-- Jessamyn West

Attention Teenagers! NO is a complete sentence!-- Author Unknown

Delight in your youth.-- Pearl Jam

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.-- Logan Pearsall Smith

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.-- Henry David Thoreau

Exuberance is beautiful.-- William Blake

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.-- Quentin Crisp

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.-- Doug Larson

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.-- Anna Quindlen

Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life - for the parents. Next to trying to pick his bride, it's the best way to learn that your authority,

if not entirely gone, is slipping fast.-- Sally and James Reston

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.-- Laurence J. Peter

Hmmm! Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, and they swim all over you.-- Sebastian, "The Little Mermaid"

How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams!-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.-- Mignon McLaughlin

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.-- Edgar Z. Friedenberg

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.-- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

I am every emotion times ten, I conform yet I'm rebellious, always obeying but somehow still an outlaw, always talking but never heard, I am a teenager.-- Author Unknown

I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.-- Brian Andreas

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.-- Erma Bombeck

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.-- Maya Angelou

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.-- Will Rogers

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.-- General George S. Patton, Jr.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.-- Al Bernstein

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.-- Rupert Brooke

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.-- Edgar W. Howe

It is not chic to be too chic.-- Elsie de Wolfe

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.-- William Shakespeare

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have - or are.-- Author Unknown

Little children, headache; big children, heartache.-- Italian Proverb

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense you concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.-- John MacNoughton

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.-- William Galvin

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.-- Faye Moskowitz

My kids' idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.-- George Foreman

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.-- Erma Bombeck

Raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.-- Author Unknown

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.-- Yiddish Proverb

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.-- Bob Phillips

Teenagehood -- that time in life when you show your individuality by looking like everyone else.-- Author Unknown

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.-- Arnold H. Glasow

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.-- Author Unknown

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.-- Raymond Duncan

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.-- Dorothy Parker

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.-- Judith Martin

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.-- Edgar Friedenberg

The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away - it's just like a really long, bad cold.-- Dawn Ruelas

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.-- Quentin Crisp

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.-- Art Buchwald

There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart.-- Author Unknown

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.-- Fran Lebowitz

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.-- Georges Bernanos

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.-- Mignon McLaughlin

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.-- Larry Lujack

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.-- Mark Twain

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.-- Author Unknown

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.-- John Ciardi

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.-- Aristotle

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart. -- Raisa Gorbachev

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.-- Jean Ingelow

Best Friend Quotes


Do you have a best friend? These best friend quotes will speak about the goodness of friendship, and remind you of the importance of cultivating a sincere and supportive relationship with another being other than your family members.

No woman is an island. Even when one get married with kids, with a full family to run, one still needs friends. We might not always have a lot of time to cultivate the friendship, but we can always make an effort to maintain those friendships that mean something to us.

Your best friend is likely someone whom you can "click" with, someone who you feel you can share yourself with, and someone that you chose to be a part of your life.


She's the one you call in the middle of the night when something happens, the one who's there when you need a listening ear, the one who accepts you as you are, and she doesn't push her ideas and advice on you.

May these best friend quotes work magic in your cards, scrapbooks and letters and remind you of true friendship!

A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.-- Author Unknown

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.-- Len Wein

A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.-- Jim Morrison

A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws.-- Author Unknown

Everybody needs one essential friend.-- Dr. William Glasser

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life-only a precious few have the same one.-- Author Unknown

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.-- Anon

Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.-- Author Unknown

Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.-- Anon

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a

friend, I'll just be me. -- Author Unknown

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.-- Henry Ford

Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher.-- Oprah Winfrey

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.-- Author Unknown

To find a truly great friend, you have to keep one eye closed - to keep him, two.-- Author Unknown

True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.-- Author Unknown

True friends are those who are there for you unconditionally. Never do they question, but always offer support no matter what the circumstances are. Best Friends are the people worth living for.-- Author Unknown

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.-- Charles Caleb Colton

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.-- Laurence Sterne

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.-- Tim McGraw

When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.-- Author Unknown

Be Yourself Quotes to Let Yourself Shine in Your Scrapbooking Pages


You're a special person. No one thing can sum you up. Here's a collection of magnificent be yourself quotes that highlights the importance of staying true to yourself.

Sometimes it can be challenging to paint a picture of who's the inner person residing in you.

To conform and fit into societal standards, you might have abandoned part of the real you.

So here's some be yourself quotes to show you that you'll be happier being the woman that you are, rather than pretending to be somebody else.

Let these wonderful quotes open your eyes to the marvels you hold within you and how beautiful you really are!

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.-- Michel de Montaigne, translated

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.-- Johann von Goethe


All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. -- Samuel Johnson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.-- Judy Garland

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.-- Honoré de Balzac

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.-- Confucius

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.-- Julius Charles Hare

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.-- Dr. Seuss

Being Myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behaviour, trying new ways of "Being Myself", so that I can see how it is I want to be.-- Hugh Prather

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.-Theodore Roosevelt

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.-- H.F. Hedge

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.-- Shakti Gawain

Folks may call you different, they may say that you can't win, but it's not what's on the outside - It's what you have within!-- Devin Peltier-Robson

Freedom lies in being bold.-- Robert Frost

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.-- William Shakespeare

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.-- Raymond Hull

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.-- Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.-- Pearl Bailey

I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am."-- Oprah Winfrey

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.-- Michel de Montaigne, translated

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.-- Sally Field

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.-- Shirley MacLaine

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.-- Sylvia Plath

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.-- Johann von Goethe

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.-- Author Unknown

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.- Louis Kronenberger

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.-- Andre Gide

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.-- K.T. Jong

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.-- Desiderius Erasmus

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.-- e.e. cummings

Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion.-- Author Unknown

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.-- Henri Frederic Amiel

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?-- Fanny Brice

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.-- Oscar Wilde

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.-- D.H. Lawrence

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.-- John Morley

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.-- Thomas Szasz

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.-- Baltasar Gracian

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.-- Robin Casarjean

The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.-- Malcolm S. Forbes

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.-- Boris Pasternak

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.-- Julien Green

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.-- Leo Buscaglia

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.-- James Matthew Barrie

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.-- Todd Ruthman

There are 3 choices: you can either give up, give in, or give it your all!-- Author Unnknown

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.-- Anaïs Nin

There is just one life for each of us: our own.- Euripides

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.-- Samuel Johnson

This outward Spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.-- Rumi

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.-- Ethel Barrymore

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.-- Alan Alda

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.-- Irene C. Kassorla

You must live your life from beginning to end: No one else can do it for you.-- Hopi saying

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.-- John Mason

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!-- Martin H. Fischer

Character Quotes to Highlight the Importance of a Great Character

Looking for inspiring character quotes? Here's a thought-provoking collection of quotes about character.

Wondering about what it takes to build up a strong character? Curious about what others have to say about character?

There's an African proverb that goes, “Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.” That goes for women too.

Your character will speak so loudly about you, that it overpowers what you may try to convince others in words.

So wherever you go, and whoever you are with, ultimately given time, your character will shine through as it's the foundation of who you are. Hopefully you can see that you're a beautiful woman with character!

Besides character quotes, you might be looking for quotes on some of the most valued key qualities listed below:

Attitude Be Yourself Beauty Believe Courage Creativity Dream Faith Giving Habit Heart Honesty Happiness Hope Kindness Leadership Letting Go

Passion Persistence Strength Success Thankful

Meanwhile, pick your favorite character quotes from the collection below and use them in your scrapbooks, cards, letters and emails to inspire and encourage your kids and your loved ones about building a character that lasts.

Character Quotes

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.-- Dale Carnegie

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.-- Helen Keller

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.-- Author Unknown

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.-- J. C. Watts

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.-- Theodore Roosevelt

Character is simply habit long continued.-- Plutarch

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.-- Joan Didion

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.-- Jim Rohn

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.-- Booker T. Washington

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.-- Rita Mero

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands -- Anne Frank

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.-- Elmer G. Letterman

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.-- Charles Reade

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.-- Abigail Van Buren

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.-- Leonardo da Vinci

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.-- Isabelle Eberhardt

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.-- Thomas Babington Macaulay

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.-- John W. Holt, Jr.

The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it.-- Author Unknown

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.-- Author Unknown

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.-- James A. Froude

Attitude Quotes to Generate Positive Thinking


Do you believe that attitude counts? Here's a series of thought-provoking attitude quotes to highlight on this important quality.

Sometimes all it takes is a simple change in attitude to turn your life around.

During days when I feel like I'm in the dumps, I'll adjust my thinking and plant more positive seeds of thought. Usually it works. Of course, it doesn't work 100% all the time, but majority of the time I would say that it does uplift my mood. I've also noticed somehow when I think more kindly towards a person, her attitude towards me will usually soften.

May these attitude quotes show you the power you hold in your hands to change your thoughts. which in turn will change your circumstances.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.-- Author Unknown

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.-- Hugh Downs

A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.-- Anonymous

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. -- Author Unknown

Attitude is the way you mentally look at the world around you. It is how you view your environment and your future. It is the focus you develop toward life itself.-- Author Unknown

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. -- Norman Vincent Peale

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. -- Kathleen Turner

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. -- Katherine Mansfield

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.-- Bill Meyer

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. -- Francesca Reigler

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.-- Ancient Persian Saying

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.-- Maya Angelou

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.-- Henry Ford

I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. -- Author Unknown

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. -- Betty Smith

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -- Ellen Glasgow

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.-- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. -- Helen MacInness

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. -- Hubert Humphrey

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. -- Susan Longacre

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. -- Emory Austin

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.-- Author Unknown

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.-- William James

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.-- Charles R. Swindoll

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.-- Will Foley

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. -- William J. Bennett

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.-- W. Clement Stone

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. -- Maurice Setter

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. -- Konrad Adenauer

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. -- Author Unknown

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... -- Dorothy Day

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.-- William James

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

You always have a choice, even if it is only a choice of your attitude.-- Lucy MacDonald

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.-- Kahlil Gibran

Be Yourself Quotes to Let Yourself Shine in Your Scrapbooking Pages


You're a special person. No one thing can sum you up. Here's a collection of magnificent be yourself quotes that highlights the importance of staying true to yourself.

Sometimes it can be challenging to paint a picture of who's the inner person residing in you.

To conform and fit into societal standards, you might have abandoned part of the real you.

So here's some be yourself quotes to show you that you'll be happier being the woman that you are, rather than pretending to be somebody else.

Let these wonderful quotes open your eyes to the marvels you hold within you and how beautiful you really are!


A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.-- Michel de Montaigne, translated

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.-- Johann von Goethe

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. -- Samuel Johnson

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.-- Judy Garland

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.-- Honoré de Balzac

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.-- Confucius

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.-- Julius Charles Hare

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.-- Dr. Seuss

Being Myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behaviour, trying new ways of "Being Myself", so that I can see how it is I want to be.-- Hugh Prather

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.-Theodore Roosevelt

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.-- H.F. Hedge

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.-- Shakti Gawain

Folks may call you different, they may say that you can't win, but it's not what's on the outside - It's what you have within!-- Devin Peltier-Robson

Freedom lies in being bold.-- Robert Frost

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.-- William Shakespeare

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.-- Raymond Hull

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.-- Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.-- Pearl Bailey

I was once afraid of people saying, "Who does she think she is?" Now I have the courage to stand and say, "This is who I am."-- Oprah Winfrey

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.-- Michel de Montaigne, translated

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.-- Sally Field

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.-- Shirley MacLaine

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.-- Sylvia Plath

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.-- Johann von Goethe

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.-- Author Unknown

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.- Louis Kronenberger

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.-- Andre Gide

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.-- K.T. Jong

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.-- Desiderius Erasmus

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.-- e.e. cummings

Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion.-- Author Unknown

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.-- Henri Frederic Amiel

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?-- Fanny Brice

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.-- Oscar Wilde

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.-- D.H. Lawrence

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.-- John Morley

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.-- Thomas Szasz

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.-- Baltasar Gracian

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.-- Robin Casarjean

The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.-- Malcolm S. Forbes

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.-- Boris Pasternak

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.-- Julien Green

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.-- Leo Buscaglia

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.-- James Matthew Barrie

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.-- Todd Ruthman

There are 3 choices: you can either give up, give in, or give it your all!-- Author Unnknown

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.-- Anaïs Nin

There is just one life for each of us: our own.- Euripides

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.-- Samuel Johnson

This outward Spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.-- Rumi

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.-- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld


You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.-- Ethel Barrymore

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.-- Alan Alda

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.-- Irene C. Kassorla

You must live your life from beginning to end: No one else can do it for you.-- Hopi saying

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.-- John Mason

Your soul is all that

What's Real Beauty? Find Out from these Beauty Quotes


Here's a collection of beauty quotes to point out that you must carry beauty in your heart in order to reflect it outwards.

Beauty is not just confined to the looks of a beautiful young woman, beauty can come in the forms of nature, of people's souls, of art and words, and more. You can choose to see beauty everywhere, or you can choose to remain untouched.

When you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the clouds, do you feel blessed to be surrounded by such glorious beauty? When you speak to a wise woman, do you see her inner beauty glowing underneath the weathered and wrinkled face? When you play with a child, do you feel warmed up by the beauty of innocence?

I hope that you'll be constantly surrounded by beauty, and you'll have the eyes and heart to appreciate them. When you feel more appreciative and thankful for all the beauty there is, you'll have beauty in your heart and you'll radiate with a touch of glow in your eyes...

Enjoy these beauty quotes!

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.-- Franz Kafka

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.-- Sophia Loren

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.-- Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.-- Kahlil Gibran

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.-- Plato

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.-- Nate Dircks

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.-- James Allen

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. -- John Muir

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. -- Confucius

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. -- Louisa May Alcott

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.-- Sarah McLachlan

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. -- Leo Tolstoy

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.-- Ashley Smith

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in

everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.-- Marianne Williamson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.-- Author Unknown

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.-- Martin Buxbaum

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. -- Rosalind Russell

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.-- Ninon de L'Enclos

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.-- Helen Keller

The difference between pretty and beautiful is-pretty is temporal-whereas beautiful is eternal.-- Author Unknown

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

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have knowndefeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.-- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. -- Albert Einstein

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.-- Mary Baker Eddy

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.-- Don Williams, Jr

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. -- Anne Frank

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.-- Rachel Carson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.-- Jawaharlal Nehru

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.-- Kahlil Gibran

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.-- Marie Stopes

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.-- Henry David Thoreau

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old. -- Frank Kafka

Believe Quotes to Inspire and Empower You


Do you believe in yourself? Here's a collection of inspirational believe quotes to bring you messages of the power of believing in yourself and in your goals.

Many of these belief quotes will strengthen your beliefs in your choices, in your big dreams, in what you're doing. Some will make you question about believing others or the written rules.

Let the wisdom of these believe quotes uplift your spirits and increase your determination!

Along with a strong belief in your own inner voice, you also need laser-like focus combined with unwavering determination.-- Larry Flynt

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.-- Charles F. Kettering

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.-- Joe Paterno

Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.-- Author Unknown

Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.-- Ivana Trump


Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.-- David Joseph Schwartz

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.-- Buddha

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.-- Mary Kay Ash

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into. -- Brian Tracy

Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.-- Oprah Winfrey

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. -- Louisa May Alcott

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.-- Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. -- Oprah Winfrey

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.-- Sasha Azevedo

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.-- Dale Carnegie

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.-- Denis Waitley

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.-- Mark Twain

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.-- Barbara De Angelis

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.-- Author Unknown

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.-- Anthony Robbins

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.-- Mahatma Gandhi

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.-- Robert Collier

Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.-- Jack Canfield

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.-- George Sheehan

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

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.-- David Viscott

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.-- Freya Stark

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.-- William James

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. -- Louisa May Alcott

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.-- Ezra Pound

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.-- Brian Tracy

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.-- Paul J. Meyer

You can do it if you believe you can! -- Napoleon Hill

Powerful Courage Quotes


Looking for courage quotes to give you the strength in the face of challenges and struggling times? Here's an inspiring collection of quotes about courage to motivate and encourage you.

You'll always need courage to deal with your life situations, love, family and work.

You need courage to live your life the way you want to.

You need courage to say no to your kids even when it pierced your heart.

You need courage to hold your family together when things seem to be falling apart.

You need courage to not lose heart when you met with failures.

Most of all, you need courage to be what you are.

Let these courage quotes inspire your soul and soothe your fears. Gain strength and courage with these powerful courage quotes!

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.-- William Shedd

All art requires courage.-- Anne Tucker

All serious daring starts from within.-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.-- Author Unknown

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.-- Paulo Coelho

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tse

Come to the edge,' he said.They said, 'We are afraid.''Come to the edge,' he said.They came.He pushed them...And they flew.-- Peter McWilliams

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. -- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. -- Dan Rather

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. -- John Wayne

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.-- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.-- Winston Churchill

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. -- Arthur Koestler

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. -- Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.-- Ken McGrath

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go, It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow -- Alice MacKenzie Swaim

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.-- Tom Krause

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.-- Author Unknown

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.-- Winston Churchill

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.-- Dorothy Thompson

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.-- Erich Fromm:

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.-- Bertrand Russell

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads.-- Erica Jong

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. -- Robert Cody

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.-- W. Clement Stone

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.-- Maya Angelou

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives

valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.-- Theodore Roosevelt

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.-- Alan Cohen

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.-- Erma Bombeck

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.-- Georgia O'Keeffe

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.-- Anais Nin

Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose.-- Jewel

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.- Andre Gide

Many of our fears are tissue paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them. -- Brendan Francis

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.-- Orison Swett Marden

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.-- Maya Angelou

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.-- Joan of Arc

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.-- Don Quixote

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.-- Dorothy Thompson

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. -- Mary Tyler Moore

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny. -- Peter Senge

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.-- R. G. Ingersoll

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.-- Charles DuBois

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.-- Soren Kierkegaard

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.-- Helen Keller

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.-- Keshavan Nair

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.-- Bernadette Devlin

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.-- Epicurus

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Creativity Quotes


These creativity quotes are fantastic at encouraging others to take a more creative outlook on life.

Are you a creative person? Or are you looking for a creative quote to inspire and encourage another person to take more risks and play more with their creative side?

I used to think that I wasn't a creative person. Creativity to me back then had a rather limited meaning. I thought only painters, writers, poets and those in creative work can be considered as creative people.

Then I began to see that creativity can spill over to many fields and disciplines. It's not restricted to certain careers or occupations.

It's about creative efforts. It's about the process of creating and creation.

May you pick up a few creativity quotes to uplift yourself or to spur others on to greater creative heights!

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.-- Frank Capra


All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.-- Pablo Picasso

Another word for creativity is courage.-- George Prince

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.-- Alan Alda

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.-- Rita Mae Brown

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.-- Edward de Bono

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.-- Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.-- Arthur Koestler

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.-- Mary Lou Cook

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.-- Charles Mingus

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.-- Thomas Disch

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.-- William Plomer

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.-- Julia Cameron

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.-- Erich Fromm

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.-- Mae Jemison

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.-- Ray Bradbury

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.-- Bo Bennett

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.-- George Bernard Shaw

I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.-- Louise Nevelson

It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.-- Barthold Georg Niebuhr

It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.-- Gordon Mackenzie

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.-- Charles Mingus

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.-- A. A. Milne

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.-- Joseph Badaracco

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.-- Tina Turner

The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.-- George J. Seidel

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.-- Carl Jung

The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.-- Abe Tannenbaum

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.-- Dee Hock

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.-- Albert Einstein

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.-- Henry David Thoreau

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.-- Warren G. Bennis

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.-- Tori Amos

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.-- R. I. Fitzhenry

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.-- Buckminster Fuller

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!-- Peter McWilliams

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.-- Madeleine L'Engle

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.-- Albert Einstein

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.-- Nietzsche

Dream Quotes to Keep Your Dreams Alive


What are your dreams? Let this collection of inspirational dream quotes provide you a source of encouragement and enthusiasm as you work towards making your dreams come true.

Do you have a dream since you were a kid? Did you just unveil your nagging dreams that was buried for years? Did your dreams begin to slowly come into clarity for you after numerous experiences you've faced?

Whatever ways that your dreams come to you, dreams are important.

They are like hopes for a future that we envision and hold on tightly in our hearts. Be careful to weed out negative thoughts and to fertilize your dreams with visualization, persistence and action.

We have to have a dream before our dreams can come true. We have to know what it is that we want out of life so that we know when we arrive.

May your dreams become a reality for you and may you bask in abundance and glorious living!

And may these quotes about dreams encourage and cheer you up on your way to manifesting your dreams.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.-- Denis Waitley

A goal is a dream with a deadline.-- Napoleon Hill

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.-- Zadok Rabinwitz

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery


All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. -- Joseph Epstein

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.-- Lao Tzu

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!-- Og Mandino

Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.-- James Dean

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.-- Author Unknown

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.-- Astrid Alauda

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.-- Dale E. Turner

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.-- Harriet Tubman

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.-- Vincent van Gogh

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.-- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.-- Jim Valvano

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of

me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.-- Jack London

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.-- Flavia Weedn

If the dream is big enough the facts don't matter.-- Dexter Yager

If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.-- Richard M. DeVos

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.-- Joyce Chapman

Life is never easy for those who dream.-- Robert James Waller

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.-- Karen Ravn

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.-- Author Unknown

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.-- Pamela Vaull Starr

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.-- George Bernard Shaw

Somewhere over the rainbowSkies are blueAnd the dreams that you dare to dreamReally do come true.-- E. Y. Harburg

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own... for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!-- Linda Staten

Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it. -- James Allen

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.-- Mark Twain

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.-- Bernard Edmonds

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...-- Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.-- Woodrow Wilson

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.-- Richard Bach

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.-- C.S. Lewis

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.-- Mary Manin Morrissey

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.-- Diana Ross

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.-- Abdul Kalam

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.-- Billy Wilder

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'-- George Bernard Shaw

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows/ and has always known/ that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting

will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.-- Anthony Robbins

Happiness Quotes and Happy Quotes


Wondering what's happiness about? Get inspired by this collection of happiness quotes that point out the ingredients for a happy life.

Many people are seeking for happiness and the harder you search for happiness, the more it seems to elude you.

You can be happy. Right at this moment. It's your choice. Happiness is not something that we chase after endlessly. It's within you.

You can choose to smile at someone and be happy. You can choose to look at the flowers, trees and listen to the birds' singing and be happy. You can choose to help a kid in some way and be happy. Or you can simply lay back, relax and be happy. There's really countless ways to be happy.

Some women think that happiness is a "destination" to be arrived at. And so they may forget to be happy and put it off until a certain day. Other women think that happiness only happens when she achieved something or accomplished some tasks. What about you? What makes you happy?

Let these happiness quotes give you a better idea of what happiness means.


A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.-- Bernard de Fontenelle

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.-- Hugh Downs

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.-- James Allen

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.-- Horace Friess

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.-- Author Unknown

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.-- H.W. Byles

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. -- Robert Brault

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.-- David Leonhardt

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. -- Author Unknown

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.-- Helen Keller

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.-- John Templeton

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.-- Buddha

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -- Mildred Barthel

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.-- Iris Murdoch

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.-- Anon

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.-- Jim Rohn

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.-- Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.-- Democritus

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.-- Charles Caleb Colton

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.-- Albert Schweitzer

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.-- Groucho Marx

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. -- Josh Billings

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. -- W. Beran Wolfe

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.-- Sharon Salzberg

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.-- Agnes Repplier

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.-- Margaret Bonnano

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.-- Dale Carnegie

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.-- Zig Ziglar

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. -- Author Unknown

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-- Marcel Proust

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.-- Helen Keller

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.-- Abraham Lincoln

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.-- Cynthia Nelms

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. -- Margaret Young

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. -- William R. Inge

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. -- Norman Vincent Peale

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.-- Ramona L. Anderson

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. -- H. Jackson Browne

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. -- William Feather

Some pursue happiness, others create it. -- Author Unknown

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.-- Albert Schweitzer

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.-- Charles L. Morgan

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash There is no goal better than this one: to know as you lie on your deathbed that you lived your true life, and you did whatever made you happy.-- Steve Chandler

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.-- Mark Twain

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -- James Openheim

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.-- Allan K. Chalmers

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.-- Martha Washington

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.-- Thomas Jefferson

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. -- C.P. Snow

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.-- Author Unknown

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.--Peyton Conway March

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.-- George Sand

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. -- Lady Blessington

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.-- Susan Polis Schutz

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.-- James M. Barrie

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. -- Frederick Keonig

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.-- Leo Buscaglia

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.-- Helen Keller

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.-- Dalai Lama

When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.-- Marci Shimoff

When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. -- Grey Livingston

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. -- Lavetta Sue Wegman

Kindness Quotes and Kind Quotes


Looking for kindness quotes? Here's a collection that will cause you to stop and ponder on the greatness of simple acts of kindness.

Many of us have been taught to be kind as a child. However in the business of daily living, somehow along the way some of us have lost touch with extending kindness to others.

Recall when's the last time you've been kind to someone else. It usually didn't involve some big acts of sacrifice, but rather little acts kindness like opening a door for someone, throwing a stranger a cheerful smile, swallowing an unkind word, saying a sincere compliment. Yet kindness inevitably warms up the heart of both the giver and the recipient.

We may not all be set out to be great people, but each of us has a choice to practice and exercise simple daily acts of kindness that so enrich ourselves and our lives.

May you find an inspiring kindness quote here that lights up your day!

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.-- William John Bennett

A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, Makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation.-- Lin Hsiu Nei

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles.-- Washington Irving

A kind word is like a Spring day.-- Russian Proverb


A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.-- George D. Prentice

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.-- Plato

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.-- Og Mandino

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.-- Albert Schweitzer

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.-- Henry Burton

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.-- George Washington Carver

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.-- Stephen Grellet

If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.-- Alfred Fripp

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.-- Mother Teresa

Kindness gives birth to kindness.-- Sophocles

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.-- Emanuel Swedenborg

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.-- C. Neil Strait

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy."-- Randolph Ray

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -- Mark Twain

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.-- Lao Tzu

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. -- Author Unknown

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.-- Mother Teresa

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.-- Barbara DeAngelis

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.-- Jesse Jackson

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.-- Aesop

Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of loving kindness. Loving kindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth.-- Itivuttaka Sutta

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given-you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.-- Dawna Markova

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you.-- Anonymous

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.-- Sophocles

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.-- Scott Adams

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.-- Kahlil Gibran

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.-- Stephen Jay Gould

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day.And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.-- Robert Alan

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.-- Albert Einstein

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -- James Matthew Barrie

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.-- Henry James

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.-- Samuel Johnson

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. -- Robert Brault

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.-- Dalai Lama

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.-- Harold Kushner

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like wildfire.-- Whoopi Goldberg

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.-- Harold Kushner

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.-- Publilius Syrus

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thankful Quotes, Thank You Quotes and Gratitude Quotes

Here's a beautiful series of thankful quotes and thank you quotes that point out the many things in your life that you can feel thankful and grateful for.

Not so long ago, I didn't know that I can express thanks for the blessings and good things in my life. I just took things for granted. Or worse, I was worried that if I was to acknowledge the blessings that I've received, somehow something "bad" would happen and take away those blessings.

Perhaps unconsciously I had this fear that bringing attention to the good things in my life might incur bad luck. So to play it safe, I went along without a grateful heart. You might be laughing now as you read this, and I thought that's rather silly of me too. But that's the belief I once held onto.

Now, I'm quick to express thanks whenever a good thing comes into my life. Somehow, there's always something to be thankful about!

I have this simple statement that I make often, "Thank you God for all the blessings and abundance in my life!"

Hope that you'll find many things in your life that fill you with thankfulness. And do enjoy these thankful quotes and gratitude quotes!

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.-- Cicero

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.-- Albert Schweitzer

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.-- Oprah Winfrey

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.-- Author Unknown

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular

direction. When one door closes, another always opens.-- Author Unknown

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.-- A. J. Cronin

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.-- Melody Beattie

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.-- Author Unknown

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.-- Brian Tracy

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.-- Christiane Northrup

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.-- Eileen Caddy

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.-- Epictetus

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.-- Meister Eckhardt

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.-- Author Unknown

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.-- Rabbi Harold Kushner

If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.-- Author Unknown

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who

rekindle the inner spirit.-- Albert Schweitzer

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.-- Naomi Williams

It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.-- Author Unknown

Just a "thank you" is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all. -- Rosie Cash

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-- Marcel Proust

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.-- Buddha

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.-- Ralph Marston

No one who achieves success does so without the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.-- Alfred North Whitehead

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.-- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.-- Richard Carlson

So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.-- Marian Wright Edelman

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.-- Wallace D. Wattles

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.-- William Blake

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.-- Henry Ward Beecher

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.-- Ralph H. Blum

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.-- Author Unknown

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.-- John Wooden

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.-- Albert Schweitzer

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.Such a life provides less space for our suffering because our attention is more balanced. We are more often occupiedwith noticing what we are given, thanking those who have helped us, and repaying the world in some concrete wayfor what we are receiving.-- Gregg Krech

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it--would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.-- Ralph Marston

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.-- Willie Nelson

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.-- Viki King

Inspirational Quotes To Keep You Inspired and Motivated

Great inspirational quotes can inspire your soul. Let this beautiful series of great inspiring quotations uplift your soul even further and higher.

Read through all these inspirational quotations and let them speak to your heart.

In this day and times where as a woman you wear several hats at once, there's much chaos and disorder surrounding your life. So you're wanting to regain some peace, clarity and inspiration.

Sometimes, it's simply not possible to hear of inspiring quotes from the people living in your environment. Instead, negativity prevails in the air. People complain and people moan constantly about their lives. And you desperately need to hear of some positive and inspirational messages.

Here's where you can find some inspirational thoughts and words to soothe your soul. Be inspired by the wisdom of these great personalities and may you gain the needed motivation to pursue whatever you dream of achieving in your life.

Time passes real quickly and may you find the courage within you to go after your heart's desires. And when the time comes for you to look back at your life, may you be deeply grateful that you've led a life that has purpose and meaning to you.

May all these great inspirational quotes bring a spark to your day!

Inspirational Quotes and Inspiring Quotes

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!-- Thomas A. Kempis

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.-- Mark Twain

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.-- Mary Kay Ash

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.-- Henry David Thoreau

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.-- Oscar Wilde

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.-- Marian Anderson

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.-- Jesse Herman Holmes

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.-- Phillips Brooks

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.-- Mary Kay Ash

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.-- Dr. Dale Turner

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.-- Voltaire

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.-- David Seabury

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.-- Nolan Bushnell

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.-- Louisa May Alcott

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.-- Will Rogers

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.-- Margaret B. Runbeck

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.-- Leon J. Suenes

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.-- Golda Meir

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.-- Agatha Christie

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.-- Martina Navratilova

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.-- Louisa May Alcott

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.-- Martha Washington

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.-- Margaret Fuller

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.-- Mary Pickford

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.-- Glenn Clark

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.-- Jonathan Winters

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.-- John Ruskin

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.-- James Anthony Froude

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.-- Mabel Newcomber

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.-- Seneca

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.-- George Bernard Shaw

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each

new vantage point.-- Harold B. Melchart

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.-- Brendan Francis

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.-- Minot Simons

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.-- Mary Shelley

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.-- Ralph Blum

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.-- Oscar Wilde

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.-- Julie Andrews

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.-- Charles Dickens

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.-- Evan Esar

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.-- William Mather Lewis

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.-- Aristotle

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.-- William Wordsworth

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.-- Elbert Hubbard

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.-- Mark Twain

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.-- Thomas Edison

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.-- Joan Baez

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.-- Ethel Barrymore

Famous Quotes and Quotationsby Famous Women

Here's an excellent collection of famous quotes by famous women.

Ponder upon these famous quotations that contain words of gems.

Add inspiration to your everyday life with some of these quotes. Put them up at your mirror or fridge, somewhere where you can see them easily.

For more quotes by famous people, please check out these lists:

Famous Quotations by Famous MenMore Famous QuotesFamous Artist QuotesFamous Movie QuotesQuotable QuotesAlbert EinsteinAudrey HepburnBob DylanBuddhaCoco ChanelDalai LamaDr SeussEleanor RooseveltErma BombeckHelen KellerMae WestMarilyn MonroeMark TwainMaya AngelouMother TeresaOprah WinfreyRalph W. EmersonRomeo JulietShakespeareWinnie The Pooh

Meanwhile, let the words of these famous women bring a positive ring to your life!

Famous Quotes by Famous Women

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same .... day.-- Janis Joplin

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?-- Mary Manin Morrissey

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.-- Erica Jong

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.-- Dolly Parton

Hope is a thing with feathersThat perches in the soul;And sings the tune without wordsAnd never stops at all.-- Emily Dickinson

I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.-- Virginia Satir

I am not afraid…I was born to do this.-- Joan of Arc

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.-- Nikki Giovanni

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.-- Tallulah Bankhead

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.-- Peace Pilgrim

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.-- Dolly Parton

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.-- Rachel Carson

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.-- Agnes Repplier

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.-- J. K. Rowling

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.-- Katharine Hepburn

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.-- Louisa May Alcott

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.-- Barbara Johnson<br</br

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.-- Marianne Williamson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.-- Peace Pilgrim

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.-- Nancy Willard

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.-- Ingrid Bergman

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

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.-- Jennifer Aniston

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.-- Barbara De Angelis

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.-- Maureen Dowd

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.-- Mary Stuart

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.-- Emily Dickinson

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.-- Anna Quindlen

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.-- Oprah Winfrey

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.-- Anne Frank

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.-- Eleanor Roosevelt

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.-- Julia Roberts

You never find yourself until you face the truth.-- Pearl Bailey

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.-- Barbara De Angelis

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