Great Inspirational Quotes - Intellectual Thursday

Hey all my dear readers! :D It's Thursday, or you can say, Intellectual Thursday, the Toxifier's way! hahaha! :D I thought to share some great quotes with you all. So let's go ahead! :D

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

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

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Wallis Simpson

Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker

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

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

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

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

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

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

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle

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

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

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

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
Junipero Serra

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

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

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

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
Henry Norris Russell

Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

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

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich Schiller

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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

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

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins

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

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas Jefferson

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

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

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

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin

Think with your whole body.
Taisen Deshimaru

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Plato

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

We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt

You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado

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

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