Inspirational

Quotes
Words to Live by
Introduction

Sometimes we all need a little inspiration to pick ourselves up out of gloomy places, or to
remind us that we all have purpose in life. This booklet is a special collection of quotes that are
sure to inspire you. This booklet was created for “You”, so sit back, relax and enjoy.

Friendship

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.”- Donna
Roberts

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” G. Randolf

“Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk
beside me and be my friend.”- Albert Camus

"Love is friendship set on fire" - Jeremy Taylor

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.' -
Martin Luther King, Jr

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just
the way you are.

“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the
number of things they need no longer mention.” Clifton Fadiman

"Never explain — your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."-
Elbert Hubbard

“A true friend is one soul in two bodies.” –Aristotle

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows you are
slightly cracked.” Bernard Meltzer

“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” –
Tennessee Williams

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you
have forgotten the words.”
Hope and Happiness

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”- George Iles

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.” L.J. Suenens

“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no
logical end.”- Scott Adams

“The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most
of everything that comes along their way.” – Karen S. Magee

“Happiness is the experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” – Dennis
Waitley

Dreams are like stars...you may never be able to touch them, but if you follow them they will
lead you to your destiny

“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” - Tom Bradley

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." – Voltaire

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are
doing, you will be successful.” -Herman Cain

“What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.”- Mike
Melville

Some pursue happiness - others create it.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the
ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.” – M. Jackson

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." - James Dean

"When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D Roosevelt
Love

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but
my soul.”- Judy Garland

“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least”- John Harrigan

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”-
James Arthur Baldwin

“Love is the only thing that can conquer death, for love crosses boundaries that no man can. “-
HRFS

“Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.”

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”- Bryant H.
McGill

"Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Elizabeth
Browning

“Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'”

“Music is love in search of a word.” - Sidonie Gabrielle

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul” - George
Bernard Shaw

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” - Brandi
Snyder

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” - Morrie
Schwartz

“If you were all alone with no one to talk to, laugh with or love, what would be your purpose in
life? Don't forget to love, laugh and live. “ - HRFS

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die" -Amelia Burr.

“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.” – William Somerset
Maugham
Wisdom

“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with
a clearer view again.”- Alex Tan

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” - Paul Gauguin

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

“The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.” - Chinese
Proverb

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make
a life.” - Sandra Carey

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.” -
Chinese Proverb

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” - Carl
Gustav Jung

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great."- Mark Twain

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way

“Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.” – Dan Millman

“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”-
Hardy D. Jackson

"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any
physical force in the universe."-Wayne Dyer

“God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try”- Mother Teresa

“The most important things in life aren't things."- Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Inspiration is how you feel on the inside, being inspirational is how others see you on the
outside.” –HRFS

“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise” - Oscar Wilde
“Don't wait for the right time to accomplish something, for that time will never come.” - HRFS

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can-there will always come a
time when you will be grateful you did." S Caldwell

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become
limitless.” - Jamie Paolinetti

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart
to the things you do not want to feel.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” - Albert Einstein

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." –Confucius

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged
men who kept on working.”

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” - Charles de
Montesquieu

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” –Gandhi

"Saying I can't is just an excuse to not try" – HRFS

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say
something.” – Plato

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are
a leader.” - John Quincy Adams

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” - Tom
Krause

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.”

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be grateful for everything you have. Even if you think you have nothing you still have more
than someone else...” - HRFS

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” - Jesse Jackson
“You see things and say 'Why'? But I dream things that never were and say 'Why Not'?” -
George Bernard Shaw