Short Inspirational Quotes

These quotes are little bits of inspiration that we can carry with us all day. Feel free to write a few down and read them when you need a lift.

I love tranqil solitude and such society as is quiet, wise and good.
--Shelly

It's not what man does which exalts him, but what man can do.
--Browning

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.
--Voltaire

Clear water flows from a pure spring.
--Unknown

Hope is the dream of a walking man.
--Diogenes

Truth is the highest thing that a man can keep.
--Chaucer

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
--Lamartine

The greatest men are the simplest.
--Unknown

Architecture is frozen music.
--Madame de Stael

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
--Carlyle

Nature is the art of God.
--Dante

The giver makes the gift precious.
--Unknown

Joy is the mainspring in the whole of endless Nature's calm.
--Schiller

Life is music if one be rightly in tune and in time.
--Unknown

Love is a faith, and one faith leads to another.
--Amiel

The truth is always the strongest argument.
--Sophocles

Confidence is the companion of success.
--Unknown

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
--Blake

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
--Unknown

He that has patience may compass anything.
--Rabelais

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
--Sidney

Who has a thousand friends has not one to spare.
--Unknown

Thsy can conquer who believe they can.
--Virgil

What is left when honor is lost?
--Syrus

Consideration is the parent of wisdom.
--Unknown

Our character is our will, for what we will we are.
--Archbishop Manning

He who has truth need never fear the want of persuasion on his Tongue.
--Ruskin

Great thoughts come from the heart.
--Vauvenargues

All that is beautiful shall abide, all that is base shall die.
--Buchanan

Life is not life at all without delight.
--Patmore

Probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
--Smiles

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
--Pilpay

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
--Cervantes

A friend is the half of my life.
--Unknown

Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations.
--Faith Baldwin

To know how to laugh is to know how to reign.
--Unknown

In youth we learn, in age we understand.
--Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The good you do is not lost though you forget it.
--Unknown

Love your friend with his faults.
--Unknown

We can only learn to love by loving.
--Iris Murdock

He who wills, can.
--Unknown

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
--Anais Nin

Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.
--Unknown

He is true to God who's true to man.
--Lowell

All service ranks the same with God.
--Browning

We learn wisdom from failure much nore than from success.
--Smiles

Every mountain means at least two valleys.
--Unknown

One life,-a little gleam of time between two Eternities.
--Carlyle

He who has begun has the work half done.
--Horace

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

A thought once awakened does not slumber.
--Carlyle

No good deed goes unpunished.
--Claire Booth Luce

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
--Mother Teresa

Just go out there and do what you have to do.
--Martina Navatilova

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
--Golda Meir

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
--Cynthia Nelms

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
--Mary McLeod Bethune

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
--Faith Baldwin

We value great men by their viture and not success.
--Nepos

Good, the more communicated, the more abundant grows.
--Milton

Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life.
--Seneca

There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.
--Browning

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends!
--Coleridge

Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty.
--Unknown

Each man reaps on his own farm.
--Plautus

One great poet is a masterpiece of nature.
--Shelly

Tell me....when does that tomorrow of yours come?
--Martial

The way to be happy is to help make others so.
--R.G.Ingersoll

Happiness is the legitimate fruit of love and service.
--George Lillo

To freely bloom-that is the definition of success.
--Gerry Spence

There are many ways up the mountain.
--S. Kaczmarek

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
--Eli Siegel

They can because they think they can.
--Virgil

Loyalty is the greatest good in the human heart.
--Latin Proverb

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