Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Eckhart Tolle

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

Dwight L. Moody

We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

Dwight L. Moody

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Dwight L. Moody

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Dwight L. Moody

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Anne Lamott

Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?

Anne Lamott

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

Anne Lamott

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Albert Maltz

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

Albert Camus

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

Annie Besant

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Annie Dillard

Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.

Annie Dillard

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

D. H. Lawrence

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

Daniel Ek

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.

Daniel Day-Lewis

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Daryl Hannah

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Daryl Hannah

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

Don Johnson

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Doris Lessing

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Donnie Wahlberg

Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.

Dale Carnegie

Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

Colin Powell

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

e. e. cummings

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

E. B. White

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

E. B. White

Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

E. B. White

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

E. B. White

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

E. B. White

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.