Here are a few of my favorite quotes that provide inspiration, motivation, or are just great words of wisdom.


"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward others are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." (Sydney J. Harris)

Speaking of animals, "Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever they require it." (Saint Francis of Assisi)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Life has to be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards." (Soren Kirkegaard)

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." (George Bernard Shaw)

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." (Mohandas Gandhi)

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." (Soren Kirkegaard)

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." (Samuel Johnson)

"Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should." (Walt Disney)

"Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better." (Walt Disney)

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." (Walt Disney)

"It is better to have tried and failed than have not tried at all." ( )

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." (Saint Augustine)

"The wise person can see a question from all sides without bias. The foolish person is biased and can see a question only from one side." (Confucius)

"Be the change you want to see in the world." (Mohandis Gandhi)

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)

"People prefer to believe what they prefer to be true." (Francis Bacon)

"The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far." (Albert Einstein)

"The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself." (Wallace Wattles)

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." (Michelangelo)

"We have just enough religion to make us hate. But not enough to make us love one another." (Jonathan Swift)

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." (Henry Ford)

"It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not." (Andre Gide)

"Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is." (St. Ignatius)

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change." (Wayne Dyer)

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right." (Henry Ford)