Powerful Quotes

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Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

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Life is either a daring adventure
or nothing.
~Helen Keller

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If you have love
you will do all things well.
~Thomas Merton

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How oft the darkest hour of ill
breaks brightest into dawn.
~Euripides

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Let us endeavor so to live that
when we come to die, even
the undertaker will be sorry.
~Mark Twain

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Be still my heart; thou hast
known worse than this.
~Homer

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And life is what we make it,
always has been, always will be.
~Grandma Moses

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Be strong and of good courage;
be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed;
for the Lord thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest.

In the depth of winter, I finally
learned that within me there
lay an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus

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Cherish your visions, your ideals,
the music that stirs in your heart.
If you remain true to them,
your world will at last be built.
~James Allen

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Be brave, and rise superior to
your sorrows, and maintain a
spirit that cannot be broken.
~Ovid

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Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought,
to have done?
~Matthew Arnold

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He is wise who does not grieve
for the things he has not, but
rejoices for those which he has.
~Epictetus

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From the lowest depth there is
a path to the loftiest height.
~Thomas Carlyle

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Live your life while you have it.
Life is a splendid gift—there is
nothing small about it.
~Florence Nightingale

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It is the character of a brave and
resolute man not to ruffled by
adversity and not to desert his post.
~Cicero

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Let nothing distress you,
Let nothing disturb you.
All things pass but God,
Who alone is sufficient.
~St. Teresa of Avila

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I beg you take courage; the brave
soul can mend even disaster.
~Catherine of Russia

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My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

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If one advances confidently in the direction
of his dreams, and endeavors to live the
life he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Sometimes I go about with pity for
myself and all the while Great Winds
are carrying me across the sky.
~Ojibway Saying

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A wildflower on the mountain top would
not change places with a rose in the garden.
~Armenian Proverb

Realize deeply that the present
moment is all you ever have.
~Eckhart Tolle

Little by little, one travels far.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

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A warrior must only take care
that his spirit is never broken.
~Shissai

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Eternity itself cannot restore
the loss struck from the minute.
~Ancient Poet

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Form a mental picture of yourself
as you want to be, and at the greatest
height your imagination can picture.
~Wallace D. Wattles

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How beautiful a day can be
when kindness touches it!
~George Elliston

Love, not fear, must be our guide.
~Rosa Parks

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Sit not down in despair;
hope on, hope ever.
~Charles Spurgeon

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To love and bear, to hope till hope
creates from its own wreck
the thing it contemplates.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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This brilliant courage that in you we see
Will master all if you its master be.
~Voltaire

Beware; for I am fearless,
and therefore powerful.
~Mary Shelley

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Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
~William Wordsworth

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Remember, no effort that we
make to attain something
beautiful is ever lost.
~Helen Keller

More things are wrought by prayer
than this world dreams of.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Happiness, not in another place
but this place. . .not for another
hour, but this hour.
~Walt Whitman

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