Great Inspirational Quotes

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Great inspirational quotes are quotes that stand the test of time. They are for us to read and take away from them what we can. Please enjoy these great quotes.

What makes a quote a great quote? I think that if it is still around after many years, and it still inspires, it is a great quote.

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The greasest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
--Charles Lamb

It is no small thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved to have thought to have done?
--Arnold

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
--Webster

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
--Thackeray

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is whole-some for the character.
--Lowell

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
--Samuel Butler

Whem wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
--Unknown

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come.
--Lowell

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
--Lao-tse

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.
--Stevenson

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never take it from you.
--Lao-tse

To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this is our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
--Amiel

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
--Greene

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
--Lopa de Vega

Who is the happiest of men? He who valus the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.
--Goethe

The secret of success in conversations is to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
--Unknown

When we can to begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
--Katherine Mansfield

A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
--Beecher

Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
--Franklin

Surely God endures forever.
--Lowell

Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control, these thhree alone lead to sovereign power.
--Tennyson

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Why should we be in such desparate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
--Thoreau

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.
--Irving

The riches of scolarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity.
--Lowell

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forgst greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
--Horace Mann

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
--John Dryden

A really great man is known by three signs-generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
--Bismarck

Much remains to conquer still; peace hath her victories no less than war.
--Milton

Take from our hearts the love of the beautiful, and you take away all the charm of life.
--Rousseau

I have never had a policy, I simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
--Lincoln

Fine art is that in which the hand, and the heart of man go together.
--Ruskin

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
--Cowper

The true test of a man's worth is not his theology but his life.
--The Talmud

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
--Wordsworth

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
--Spinoza

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
--Cicero

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