Inspiration

101 Quotes that Inspire Me

1. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begot­ten Son, that whoso­ever believeth in him should not per­ish, but have ever­last­ing life.
2. I will never leave you nor for­sake you.
3. I Am the way.
4. Preach it with your mouth, then live it with your life.
5. Life isn’t about find­ing your­self, it is about cre­at­ing yourself.
6. We nav­i­gate our whole lives using words. Change and improve the words and I believe we can change and improve life.
7. The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, there­fore to use it, not to mis­use it.
8. Life is a rich strain of music, sug­gest­ing a realm too fair to be.
9. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to per­form­ing daily acts of trivia.
10. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
11. If you have knowl­edge, let oth­ers light their can­dles in it.
12. Our great­est glory is not in never falling, but in ris­ing every time we fall.
13. Music gives a soul to the uni­verse, wings to the mind, flight to the imag­i­na­tion, and life to everything.
14. Music expresses that which can­not be said and on which it is impos­si­ble to be silent.
15. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
16. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few sea­sons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
17. Find a need and fill it.  Find a hurt and heal it.
18. Inspi­ra­tion comes to us slowly and quiety…prime it with a lit­tle solitude.
19. Oh, the com­fort, the inex­press­ible com­fort of feel­ing safe with a
    per­son, hav­ing nei­ther to weigh thoughts nor mea­sure words, but pour­ing
    them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, cer­tain that
    a faith­ful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keep­ing,
    and with a breath of kind­ness blow the rest away.
20. Much of the stress that peo­ple feel doesn’t come from hav­ing too much to do. It comes from not fin­ish­ing what they started.
21. Do not fol­low where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
22. It does not mat­ter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.
23. “You’ve got a lot of choices. If get­ting out of bed in the morn­ing is a chore and you’re not smil­ing on a reg­u­lar basis, try another choice.” –source unknown
24. Where­fore see­ing we also are com­passed about with so great a cloud of wit­nesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so eas­ily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Look­ing unto Jesus the author and fin­isher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despis­ing the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. — Hebrews 12:1–2
25. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with your­self. Do not lose courage in con­sid­er­ing your own imper­fec­tions but instantly set about rem­e­dy­ing them — every day begin the task anew. — Saint Fran­cis de Sales (1567 — 1622)
26. It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that mat­ter. ~Mar­lene Dietrich
27. The most I can do for my friend is sim­ply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau
28. I want to do some­thing so big that every­one will know that God did it! — Lester Roloff
29. I’m thank­ful that I believe in God. I’m even more thank­ful that He believes in me.
30. My son, for­get not my law; but let thine heart keep my com­mand­ments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth for­sake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good under­stand­ing in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own under­stand­ing. In all thy ways acknowl­edge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. — Proverbs 3:1–7
31. “We each have a dif­fer­ent pur­pose, and what­ever mine is, what­ever God puts in my lap, I plan to do it well.” — Rachel Smith, July 7, 2009
32. Wak­ing up is not a self­ish pur­suit of hap­pi­ness, it is a rev­o­lu­tion­ary stance, from the inside out, for the ben­e­fit of all beings in exis­tence. –Noah Levine
33. “Obsta­cles are things a per­son sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” — E. Joseph Crossman
34. If a friend is in trou­ble, don’t annoy him by ask­ing if there is any­thing you can do. Think of some­thing appro­pri­ate and do it. –Edgar Wat­son Howe
35. Be Strong — by Malt­bie Babcock

    Be strong!
    We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;
    We have hard work to do, and loads to lift;
    Shun not the struggle–face it; ’tis God’s gift.

    Be strong!
    Say not, “The days are evil. Who’s to blame?“
    And fold the hands and acquiesce–oh shame!
    Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God’s name.

    Be strong!
    It mat­ters not how deep entrenched the wrong,
    How hard the bat­tle goes, the day how long;
    Faint not–fight on! Tomor­row comes the song.

36. “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Ver­ily I say unto you, Inas­much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Matthew 25:40
37. You can’t use up cre­ativ­ity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
38. Sor­row looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up. –Author Unknown
39. By the power of faith every endur­ing work is accom­plished. –James Allen
40. The foun­da­tion of grat­i­tude is the expec­ta­tion of noth­ing. –Author Unknown
41. Occa­sion­ally God will allow stress into our lives to fur­ther develop our faith and our walk with Him. –Pas­tor Paul Chappel
42. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. –Author Unknown
43. Work as hard as you can to make all the money you can and spend as lit­tle as you can in order to give away all that you can. –John Wesley
44. The harder the course, the more reward­ing the tri­umph. –Author Unknown
45. Attempt some­thing so impos­si­ble that unless God is in it, it’s doomed to fail­ure. –Author Unknown
46. Dream no small dreams, for they stir not the hearts of men. –Author Unknown
47. Have faith in God means to reckon on God’s faith to you. All my life has been so fickle. Some­times I could trust, some­times I could not, but when I could not trust then I reck­oned that God would be faith­ful. –Hud­son Taylor
48. The longer I live, the more patiently I think, and the more anx­iously I enquire, the less I seem to know. Walk humbly. That is enough. –John Adams
49. When faith is most dif­fi­cult, it is most nec­es­sary. –Dr. John Goetsch
50. Have courage for the great sor­rows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labo­ri­ously accom­plished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. –Vic­tor Hugo
51. The one con­cern of the devil is to keep Chris­tians from pray­ing. He fears noth­ing from prayer-less stud­ies, prayer-less work, prayer-less reli­gion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wis­dom, but trem­bles when we pray. –Samuel Chadwick
52. There are some things in life that are dif­fi­cult to attribute solely to God, because you see man’s hands so involved in it. Then there are some things that only God can be given credit for, because no man came any­where near it. –Myself
53. “When you have a lot of irons in the fire in min­istry, you have more options for help­ing peo­ple with their spir­i­tual wrin­kles.” — D.J. Moore
54. “This is not a show and I am not ashamed” –Jake Lockmiller
55. I’m a pas­sion­ate per­son. That’s how I roll. –Myself
56. Sur­prise Me. –Terry Esau
57. We are all capa­ble if we have faith and pas­sion. –Yanni
58. Don’t ask your­self what the world needs; ask your­self what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is peo­ple who have come alive. –Harold Whitman
59. Above all, be true to your­self, and if you can­not put your heart in it, take your­self out of it.
60. They may for­get what you said, but they will never for­get how you made them feel.
61. Three pas­sions, sim­ple but over­whelm­ingly strong, have gov­erned my life: the long­ing for love, the search for knowl­edge, and unbear­able pity for the suf­fer­ing of mankind. –Bertrand Russell
62. “A true friend stabs you in the front” – Oscar Wilde
63. Are you look­ing for blame — or solu­tions? — Doris Krebs
64. “But he giveth more grace.”  James 4:6
65. Be the surprise.
66. When you stand still, you reject the strug­gle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ulti­mately, you reject ful­fill­ment, hap­pi­ness, the dance for joy and every­thing else that is eter­nally good. — Matthew Kelly
67. Grow as a per­son and your world grows with you.
68. The mas­ter in the art of liv­ing
    draws no sharp dis­tinc­tion between
    his labor and his leisure,
    his mind and his body,
    his work and his play,
    his edu­ca­tion and his recre­ation.
    He hardly knows which.
    He sim­ply pur­sues his vision of excel­lence
    through what­ever he is doing
    and leaves oth­ers to deter­mine
    whether his is work­ing or play­ing.
    To him­self, he is always doing both.
    —James A. Michener
69. “Be your­self, because every­one else is
    already taken.” –Oscar Wilde
70. Some­times the hard­est thing to do is just to stay human.
71. One of the hard­est things in life is watch­ing the per­son you love, love some­one else.
72. Every man is afraid of some­thing. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of los­ing you.
73. It hurts to love some­one and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love some­one and never find the courage to let the per­son know how you feel.
74. Meet­ing you was fate, becom­ing your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no con­trol over.
75. Love is when you shed a tear and still want her, it’s when she ignores you and you still love her, it’s when she loves another guy but you still smile and say I’m happy for you, when all you really do is cry.
76. What is a friend? A sin­gle soul dwelling in two bod­ies. — Aristotle
77. 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
78. I’ll Be Here
79. You’re Not Alone
80. All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was van­ity; but the dream­ers of the day are dan­ger­ous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it pos­si­ble. –T.E. Lawrence
81. I have learned to seek my hap­pi­ness by lim­it­ing my desires, rather than attempt­ing to sat­isfy them. –John Stu­art Mills
82. You’re hap­pi­est while you’re mak­ing the great­est con­tri­bu­tion. –Robert F. Kennedy
83. Try not to become a man of suc­cess but a man of value. –Albert Einstein
84. Let thy words be few. –Eccle­si­astes 5:2
85. The secret of suc­cess in life is for a man to be ready for his oppor­tu­nity when it comes. –Earl of Beaconsfield
86. The waters wear the stones. –Job 14:19
87. Energy and per­sis­tence con­quer all things. –Ben­jamin Franklin
88. The man who removes a moun­tain begins by car­ry­ing away small stones. –Chi­nese Proverb
89. It does not mat­ter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. –Confucius
90. Gov­ern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. –Thomas Fuller
91. As I grow to under­stand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. –Jules Renard
92. Most of the shad­ows of this life are caused by our stand­ing in our own sun­shine. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
93. Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one prob­lem after another presents itself and in the solv­ing of them we can find our great­est plea­sure. –Kal Menninger
94. Life is short, art long, oppor­tu­nity fleet­ing, expe­ri­ence treach­er­ous, judg­ment dif­fi­cult.
    Hypocrites
95. After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. –Ital­ian Proverb
96. The art of being wise is know­ing what to over­look. –William James
97. The aim of edu­ca­tion should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. –James Beattie
98. Think­ing is the hard­est work there is, which is the prob­a­bly rea­son why so few peo­ple engage in it. –Henry Ford
99. The effi­cient man is the man who thinks for him­self, and is capa­ble of think­ing hard and long. –Charles W. Eliot
100. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Nor­man Vin­cent Peale
101. Don’t make some­one a pri­or­ity in your life when you’re just an option in theirs.

(Based on http://www.43things.com/person/kennethbaucum)