Quotes Temple Inspirational Quotes

Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott
American Educator

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Arthur Balfour
British Statesman

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Hosea Ballou
American Clergyman

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Amelia Barr
American Novelist

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr
American Novelist

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell
American Author

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Donald Cargill
Scottish Clergyman

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Taylor Dayne
American Musician

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean
American Actor

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus
Greek Philosopher

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

Jim Elliot
American Clergyman

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

Robin Gibb
English Musician

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide
French Novelist

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare
English Writer

Belief creates the actual fact.

William James
American Philosopher

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Pope John XXIII
Italian Clergyman

Ideas shape the course of history.

John Maynard Keynes
English Economist

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ray Manzarek
American Musician

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis
Greek Businessman

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Jean Paul
German Author

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Pope Paul VI
Italian Clergyman

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Pope Paul VI
Italian Clergyman

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale
American Clergyman

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein
American Businessman

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Robert H. Schuller
American Clergyman

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Boris Vallejo
Peruvian Artist

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Max Weinberg
American Musician

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Arthur Young
English Writer

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

Jack Youngblood
American Athlete

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Emile Zola
French Novelist

Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker
American Activist

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Richard Bach
American Novelist

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Richard Bach
American Novelist

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Queen Elizabeth II
English Royalty

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Mohandas Gandhi
Indian Leader

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Ronald Reagan
American President

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

William Bartram
American Environmentalist

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes
Greek Poet

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle
Greek Philosopher

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland
Australian Athlete

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford
American Actress

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks
American Clergyman

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha
Leader

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Carter Burwell
American Composer

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Leo Buscaglia
American Author

Think with your whole body.

Taisen Deshimaru
Japanese Philosopher

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman

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
Irish Actress

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
American Clergyman

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Benjamin Franklin
American Politician

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Anne Frank
German Writer

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost
American Poet

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller
English Clergyman

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Michael Jordan
American Basketball Player

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
Belgian Actress

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
Polish Educator

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Audrey Hepburn
Belgian Actress

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill
American Writer

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller
American Author

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo
French Author

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

Joseph Wood Krutch
American Environmentalist

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot
English Theologian

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Audre Lorde
American Poet

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

George Lucas
American Director

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther
German Leader

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Vincent McNabb
Irish Clergyman

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato
Greek Philosopher

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Charles Morgan
British Novelist

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Lee Ritenour
American Musician

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

Smokey Robinson
American Musician

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Smokey Robinson
American Musician

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Tony Robbins
American Author

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson
American Musician

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch
Greek Philosopher

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

John Muir
American Environmentalist

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn
American Businessman

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
American Musician

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt
American President

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Theodore Roosevelt
American President

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French Economist

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Babe Ruth
American Athlete

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Amy Sedaris
American Actress

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Harry Seidler
Australian Architect

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Alan Watts
English Philosopher

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Lao Tzu
Philosopher

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton
American Author

We convince by our presence.

Walt Whitman
American Poet

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bern Williams

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Andrew Shue
American Actor

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson
American Royalty

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin
Chinese Writer