Inspirational Quotes

Character
Have you ever considered that, just perhaps,the reason you have gotten as far as you have is because of the invisible work of anonymous Angels? Good strangers in the night?
— Gary Kinnaman
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 4/9/08
Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.”
— Terry Lynn Taylor
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 3/17/0
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.
— St. Patrick
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 3/17/08
The truth of angels is they have many shapes, forms, sizes, appearances and duties. You will see angels as you need to see them. Sometimes you may see only a burst of light in a darkened room or a cloudy form around a person's body.
— Barbara Mark
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 11/12/07
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and
know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 11/5/07
Contemporary Angel accounts are frequently about unpredictable encounters that have personal significance in the lives of otherwise average people. Most accounts involve some wonderful or mysterious being who appeared when
most needed and who was usually only recognized as an Angel in retrospect.
— Ruth J. Moro
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/29/07
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers — and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
— David M. Gottesman
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 6/11/07
From the errors of others — a wise man corrects his own.
— Publilius Syrus, 1st Century B.C
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 3/5/07
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material, that thoughts rule the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 11/13/06
Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
— Thomas Szasz
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/23/06
A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.
— Crazy Horse
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 8/14/06
Where the ego promotes control by fear, the soul promotes freedom in love. Where the ego seeks separation, the soul seeks unity.
— Sannyasin
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/3/06
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
— Wayne Dyer
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 6/26/06
You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big, bold, righteous and eternal.
— Barry Munro
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 4/17/06
Angels come to help and guide us in as many guises as there are people who need their assistance. Sometimes we see their ethereal, heavenly shadow, bright with light and radiance. Sometimes we only feel their nearness or hear their whisper. And sometimes they look no different from ourselves.
— Eileen Elias Freeman
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 3/13/06
These words by author and philosopher Alex Noble reflect my own beliefs ... "If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day."
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 2/27/06
I found my purpose as the perfect reflection of Love in my own individual, Christlike identity. This shows that if the limited beliefs of the limited human consciousness are removed, we see God expressed.
— Marta Greenwood, www.Spirituality.com
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/24/05
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/10/05
It is at the hour of death that the good angel shows the greatest zeal in protecting and defending the soul committed to his care.
— Pascal Parente
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 9/12/05
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates."
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 8/1/05
My dream for many years has been to empower people around the world ... to have everyone, everywhere recognize their innate worth. No matter what our environment has taught us, the Truth (with a capital "T") is that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, rather than the other way around.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 6/27/05
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 5/30/05
Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.
— Billy Graham
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 4/4/05
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 3/28/05
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
— Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1917-1984)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 12/20/04
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds — resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
—Saint Augustine, Carthaginian Author & Saint (354 AD-430 AD)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 8/30/04
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts, British Novelist, Poet and Dramatist (1862-1960)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 8/16/04
Learning to live our life with no regrets often stems from some painful experience that we couldn't take back. When we realize we could have acted differently, this important Awareness is then a gift that can guide our future behavior towards inner peace.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 7/19/04
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.
— Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (1923-1929)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 4/26//04
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic
lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts."
— Henry Ward Beecher, Abolitionist & Clergyman (1813-1887)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 12/8//03
The more we bless miraculous events in our lives, the more they will occur. Sometimes even guardian angels need a 'green light'!
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 12/8//03
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
— Anais Nin, French Author & Diarist (1903-1977)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 11/3//03
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake.
— John Milton, Renowned English Poet (1608-1674)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/6/03
Allowing ourselves to be open to the possibilities 'out there' can create a more serene and confident reality in our everyday lives.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 10/6/03
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
— James A. Froude, English Historian (1818-1894)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 9/15/03
'No matter where we go, there WE are ...' There's no escaping it, the common denominator in each and every relationship in our life is: OURSELVES. The person I am today is a direct result of my past experiences and the fact that I chose to pay attention and learn. When we stay conscious, we eventually recognize the gifts that our relationships offer.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 8/18/03
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
— George Eliot, Pseudonym of Marian Evans, First Rank English Novelist (1819-1880)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 5/19/03
We've all had moments of Angelic Intervention ... which have saved us from peril or brightened our existence. The more we acknowledge these magical occurrences, the more they'll feel 'invited' to return.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 5/19/03
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.
— Dr. David Viscott, Pulitzer Prize Psychiatrist (1938-1996)
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 4/28/03
Feelings, tentatively tossed, can barely scale the walls of our self-imprisoning fears. When we recognize our divine nature, our spirit soars over obsolete walls. Free, then, to love ourselves, we can lovingly embrace a world of differences.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
Inspirational Quote from Inspiration Line 4/14/03
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
— Albert Einstein
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.
— Jonas Salk
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives teach us who we are.
— Salman Rushdie
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
— Elbert Hubbard
What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
— Attributed to Thomas Edison
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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 (Pauline Esther Friedman)
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
— Aristotle
The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
— Baron Thomas Babington Macauley
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
— Horace Greeley
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he’s born.
— William R. Inge
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
— William J. Bennett
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
— Thomas Carlyle
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
— Thomas Paine
"Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
— Alphonse Karr
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
— Pablo Neruda
A man's character is his fate.
— Heraclitus
One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
— Henri Stendahl
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
— Albert Einstein
The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it.
— Rosemary Fillmore Rhea, from New Thought for a New Millennium
In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others’ happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others’ happiness.
— His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Ethics for a New Millennium

Success
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

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

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
Cicero

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard



There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
A. Branson Alcott

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Earl of Beaconsfield

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Jospeph Addison

Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done.
C. V. White

And one quote just for fun.....

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
Follow Your Dreams
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key.
Lyrics from Already Gone, peformed by the Eagles for their 1974 On the Border album



The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau

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

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare
Fear Of Failur
Go back a little to leap further.
John Clarke

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
Thomas Hood

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Newell D. Hillis

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles





I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.
John Keats

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.
Publius Syrus

He that is down needs fear no fall.
John Bunyan

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth

One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.
Tom Browne

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
James A. Froude

It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures.
Alfred Mercier

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
Georges Clemenceau

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.
The fearful are the failing.
Sarah J. Hale

Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
Johann C. F. von Schiller

Failure teaches success.
Japanese Saying


Goals and Goal Setting
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Victor Cousins



Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
(as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Samuel Butler

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

The great and glorious masterpiece of
man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran



Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor Frankl

To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.
Franklin Roosevelt

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it.
Burmese Saying

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Author Unknown

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith