- Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu
- Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
- Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
- In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
- The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
- Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
- A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
Jack Dempsey
- If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
- All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
- If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Lucy Larcom
- Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare
- Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
John Wooden
- Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide
- The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
- There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
- Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
- Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
- Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
- I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone
- Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
- I said to the almond tree, ‘Friend, speak to me of God,’ and the almond tree blossomed.
Nikos Kazantzakis
- Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
- God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
- Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior
- Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal
- For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Wallis Simpson
- I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
Loretta Young
- A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
- I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
- Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
Ellen DeGeneres
- 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
- Prayer is man’s greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
- Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Jean Paul
- We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
- Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.
Marlee Matlin
- The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
Emile Zola
- Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
- Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
Pope Paul VI
- Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
- 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
- What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
- What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
- It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
- Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
- Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.
William Morris
- I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
- And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black Elk
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse