Quotes to inspire and reflect

Help us to be thankful for this day and every day and treat each one as a precious gem to be filled to the full with meaning and with love.

I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words and giving in return. 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.

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

The smaller the heart, the bigger the hate it shelters.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.

Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Resolve says, ‘I will.’ The man says, ‘I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky and too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I’m not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head against a stone wall long enough, at some point you realize the wall is stone and that your head is flesh and blood.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Fortune favors the brave.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made.

What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

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

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

He, who moves not forward, goes backward.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities, always see them for they are always there.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

All things are difficult before they are easy.