Quotes Collection

Daily Inspirational

  • "Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.  Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." - Betty Smith
  • "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katharine Hepburn
  • "Sunsets are so beautiful they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven." - Sir John Lubbock
  • "All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
  • "Be the change you want to see in the world." - Ghandi
  • "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" - Maya Angelou
  • "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid.  Let's go.' " - Maya Angelou
  • "You can shine no matter what you're made of." - Bigweld, Robots
  • "And in the end it's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
  • "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.  They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
  • " A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep." - Cinderella
  • "You  make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you. There's only one person in this whole world like you.  And people can like you exactly as you are." Mr. Rogers
  • "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Be strong, be true, be forever who you are." - Karla, Tarzan II
  • "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Nothing can dim the light that shines within." - Maya Angelou
  • "Life's greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life." - tagline from The Lion King
  • "Be yourself.  Everyone else will appreciate the originality." - Unknown
  • "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.  To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." - Helen Keller
  • "People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.  But the self is not something that one finds.  It is something that one creates." - Thomas Szasz
  • "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. - Albert Einstein
  • "Every person has a purpose and a reason for being on earth." - Sanaya Roman
  • "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer.  It sings because it has a song." - Maya Angelou

Christian Inspirational

  • "I know the Lord is always with me.  I will not be shaken, for He is right beside me." - Psalm 16:8 LB
  • "And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you." - Ephesians 4:32
  • "Be on guard.  Be courageous.  Be strong, and everything you do must be done with Love." - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 LB
  • "Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9
  • "I know that God will not give me more than I can handle.  I just wish he didn't trust me so much." - Mother Theresa
  • "Wisdom will multiply your days and add years to your life." - Proverbs 9:11 LB

Love

  • "Love is all you need." - The Beatles
  • "Where there is love there is life." - Indira Gandhi
  • "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Bill Wilson
  • "Do all things with love." - Oq Mandino
  • "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • "There is only one happiness in life, To Love and Be Loved." - George Sand
  • "Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - Anonymous
  • "This day shall be a love day." - William Shakespeare
  • "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh
  • "I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but what you are making of me.  I love you for the part of me that you bring out." - Roy Croft
  • "To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten." - Anonymous

Dogs

  • "To err is human, to forgive, canine." - Unknown
  • "No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich." - Louis Sabin
  • "The more people I meet, the more I love my dog." - Unknown
  • "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace." - Milan Kundera
  • "If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one." - Andy Rooney
  • "I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive." - Gilda Radner
  • "Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant." - Unknown
  • "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." - Christopher Morley
  • "A Pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion." - A A Milne

Cats

  • "Dogs come when they're called.  Cats take a message and get back to you." - Mary Bly
  • "When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me." - Michel deMontaigne
  • "Cats don't belong to people.  They belong to places." - Wright Morris
  • "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch

Mother/Women

  • "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln
  • "There is a woman at the beginning of all great things." - Alphonse DeLamartine
  • "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers." - Jewish Proverb
  • "Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away." - Barbara DeAngelis
  • "A mother is someone who can take the place of everyone else, but no one in the world can take her place." - Author Unknown
  • "Well-behaved women rarely make history." - Laurel Thatcher Ulricher

Father/Men

  • "All men who live with any degree of serenity, live by some assurance of grace." - Reinhold Niebuhr
  • "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh
  • "There is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson." - Victor Hugo
  • "A father is someone you look up to, no matter how tall you are." - Unknown
  • "Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad." - Unknown

Baby/Children

  • "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." - John W. Whitehead
  • "I don't know why they say you have a baby.  The baby has you." - Gallagher
  • "Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires." - Marcelene Cox
  • "It is only that first step that is difficult" - Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
  • "Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be." - David Bly
  • "A star danced, and under that was I born." - William Shakespeare
  • "Children reinvent your world for you." - Susan Sarandon
  • "To look out at you gives me enormous hope.  You look so competent, so strong, so young, so committed, so ready to take on the future, difficult times and all." - Colin Powell

Friends

  • "Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each other's company without speaking a word to one another." - George Ebers
  • "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart."  - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "Hold a true friend with both of your hands." - Nigerian proverb
  • "A friend is one of the nicest things to have, and one of the best things to be." - Douglas Pagels
  • "My friends have made the story of my life." - Helen Keller
  • "Friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things." - Unknown
  • "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey
  • "Friends are the sunshine of life." - John Hay
  • "I get by with a little help from my friends" - John Lennen
  • "Silences make the real conversations between friends." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

Family

  • "The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family" - Giuseppe Mazzini
  • "Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts." - Unknown
  • "Other things may change us, but we start and end with family." - Anthony Brandt
  • "You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu

Sports

  • "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." - Muhammad Ali
  • "Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King
  • "When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, 'I'm gonna prove you wrong!'" - Picabo Street
  • "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.  you may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
  • "Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." - William A. Ward
  • "Sweat plus sacrifice equals reward." - Charlie Finley
  • "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." - Archie Griffen
  • "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan
  • "Ask not what your teammates can do for you.  Ask what you can do for your teammates." - Magic Johnson
  • "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." - Ray Knight
  • "To be prepared is half the victory." - Miguel Cervantes