inspirational quotes

Every wall is a door.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

He who angers you conquers you.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

From caring comes courage.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

The time is always right to do what is right.