Inspirational Quotes

“I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.”

-- Carol Ann Duffy

“This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.”

-- Roma Downey

“Mankind is made great or little by its own will.”

-- Friedrich Schiller

“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

-- Audrey Hepburn

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

-- Plato

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

-- Plutarch

“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”

-- Fulton J. Sheen

“The best way out is always through.”

-- Robert Frost

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”

-- Henry Rollins