How many times have you read a quote that makes you stop and think? Or you read a quote that changes your perspective or attitude about something. Here find some of our favorite quotes that make us stop and think.
Many of the best quotes are like the best poems: they point to a truth, but they don't spell it out. You get an insight, but it's up to you to figure out what to do with it, how to implement it.
Russ Kick
- Best Poems
Our biggest, blackest troubles are often only the locomotive drawing our richest treasure train.
Author Unknown
- Retirement Poems
I want to go back to the simpler times when giving was much more fun. When the focus was on spending time with loved ones and giving was not overdone.
Julie Hebert, Simple Times
- Poems About Giving
Gratitude is more than a feeling within, it's a voice of thanks, a heartfelt spin.
C. A. Lynch, Feeling Gratitude
- Gratitude Poems
Retirement may be an ending, a closing, but it is also a new beginning. It like a book, turning the page and starting a new chapter.
C. A, Lynch - Retirement Quotes
Some day we shall know that every sorrow in our lives held a secret of joy for us. Only in entire surrender and devotion to Christ can we learn the new song.
J. R. Miller
- Christian Poems
Don�t let what you can�t do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
- Poems That Inspire
Opening our hearts to what Christmas brings, if only we could keep it forever - what joy it would bring!
C. A. Lynch, A Time For Giving
- Christmas Poems
A teacher's role is oft times unknown, but the impact can last throughout life; for how they shape a child�s seeds of thought
C. A. Lynch, A Teacher's Role
- Poems To Inspire Teachers
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable - Graduation Poems
A marriage is more than just love and desire; it�s shared goals and dreams, which will light its perpetual fire.
C. A. Lynch, Shared Goals And Dreams
- Marriage Poems
It�s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
- Poems About Today
Do any hearts beat faster, do any faces brighten to hear your footstep on the stair?
Wellspring
- Wisdom Poems
Change is not the enemy, we see, rather, a friend, guiding us to be free. It breaks the chains that hold us tight, opens doors to a world so bright.
C. A. Lynch, Embrace The Winds Of Change
- Poems About Change
Beneath the clouds of gloom and dread, a ray of hope appears instead.
Julie Hebert, A Ray Of Hope
- Poems About Hope
Rather than whining about miseries so dire, resolve them instead with bright desire, rather than complaining about a lost cause, act now to apply the needed pause.
C. A. Lynch, Time Is Gold
- Poems To Inspire Students
Sometimes I just look up, smile and say, 'I know that was you, thanks for visiting me again'.
Author Unknown
- Wish You Were Here Poems
No challenge is too big or small, there�s always a solution to resolve a problem if we stand tall
C. A. Lynch, Take A Deep Breath
- Overcoming Obstacles Poems
Life has its ups and downs, but within each day, there's something positive to cherish.
C. A. Lynch
- Monday Quote Of The Day
Never waste a day, whether it is Tuesday or Friday, focus on the possibilities of the day ahead.
Julie Butler
- Tuesday Quotes
Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.
Kate DiCamillo
- Quotes About Friends
To turn aspirations into reality's embrace, focus on actions that propel you in the chase.
C. A. Lynch, Focused Actions
- Poems About Focus
Twenty years from now you�ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.
Mark Twain
- Quotes That Inspire
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead and by it you are neither blessed nor banned; take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.
Berton Braley, Start Where You Stand
- Positive Poems
No more scurrying to the office like birds, no more fretting till the day's end curtails, no more days of the boss to annoy.
Retirement is a time to enjoy!
Julie Hebert, A Life of Desire
- Funny Retirement Poems
Monday, a day that holds the power to shape our week ahead.
Julie Hebert
- Poems About Monday
The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.
Hubert Humphrey
- Poems About Today
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
- Quotes To My Daughter
The older you get, the more you tell it like it used to be.
Author Unknown
- Birthday Poems
Be thankful for everything that happens in life, no experience is meant to cause strife. All of it serves a purpose and reason, helping us learn and thrive in different seasons.
C. A. Lynch, Things That Happen In Life
- Thankful For Poems
A grandfather is someone who has silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
Author Unknown
- Grandfather Quotes
We may grieve for what we have lost, but we celebrate what we have gained in knowing them.
C. A. Lynch
- Quotes For Funerals
Our life is a keyboard. The Master's fingers will sweep over it, and a weary world will catch notes of melody as we pass along. The life that is in tune with God is keyed to the note of love.
J. R. Miller
- Poems About God
If your cup is small, fill it to the brim. Make the most of your opportunities, of honest work, and pure pleasure.
Henry V. Dyke
- Poems About Honesty
It's so simple and yet profound, how kindness shown can go around
C. A, Lynch, It's So Simple
- Kindness Quotes
Over-thinking causes unnecessary stress and worry, and tends to blow things out of proportion.
Melissa Eshleman
- Worry Quotes
When you educate a man in mind and not in morals, you educate a menace to society.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Quotes About Education
First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.
Lady Diana Cooper
- Birthday Sayings
Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.
Nicky Gumbel
- Poems On Faith
Everyone wants to live in tomorrow and vacation in yesterday.
Matt Spire
- Time Quotes
Instead of wishing that your life could be different, get up and make it happen. Ditch the excuses and start reaching for the life you've always wanted.
Alex Fitel
- Positive Quotes
A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension and worry.
Wilfred Peterson
- Quotes About Home
Love is not an innocent but a noble passion. When guided by principle it is the gem of all social virtues --the cement and solace of the virtuous relations of the human life.
J. S. Ogilvie
- Poems About Love
Making mistakes is part of the process of becoming who we were meant to be.
C. A. Lynch
- Quotes About Mistakes
Some people think that they can have more things done when they do things simultaneously. Our minds, however, cannot focus on two things at one time.
John Morgan
- Quotes About Focus
Dogs are our true friends, our angels, our teachers, our healers. They love us unconditionally, as God intended. If we look carefully, we can learn from them how to make the world a brighter and better place.
Leila Grandemange
- Pet Loss Quotes
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
- Quotes To Inspire Graduates
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
Schopenhauer
- Happy Birthday Quotes
Hearts, like plants, must live in the sunshine to thrive.
Mary Allette Ayer
- Happy Poems
The test of your Christian character should be that you are a joy-bearing agent to the world.
Henry Ward Beecher
- Christian Quotes
Building a character of honesty takes more than sheer willpower; it also takes an understanding of the reality and significance of truth. Truth is real and it matters.
Robert Velarde
- Quotes About Honesty
When one wills anything persistently, unconsciously he has gained concentration of purpose.
Author Unknown, Keys To Success
- Poems About Success
God asks no man if he will accept life. That is not the choice is. You must take it. The only choice is, how.
Henry Ward Beecher
- Poems On Life
Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.
Brad Sugars
- Quotes To Inspire Students
Some people are always finding fault with nature for putting thorns on roses; I always thank her for putting roses on thorns.
Alphonse Karr
- Thank You Quotes
True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
Author Unknown
- Cute Love Sayings
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Kitty O'Neill Collins
- Age Quotes
You think you're one of millions but you're one in a million to me.
Brad Paisley
- Love Sayings
When one wills anything persistently, unconsciously he has gained concentration of purpose.
Author Unknown, Keys To Success -
Quotes About Success
There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
Author Unknown
- Poems About Getting Older
Our life is but the childhood of our eternity, the school days preparatory for the immortal years beyond.
Canon Farrar
- Heaven Poems
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Mary Martin
- Wish Poems
Forgiveness can be extremely hard, but it will change your life for the better.
Jonathan Puddle
- Quotes That Encourage
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Ortiz
- Quotes To Inspire Teachers
It is an understatement to say that our expectations dramatically affect our view of reality.
M. Blaine Smith, Faith and Optimism
- Quotes About Expectations
Dreams don�t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you�ll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that�s great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that�s part of the process.
Naomi Osaka
- Dream Quotes
Thinking of you keeps me awake. Dreaming of you keeps me asleep. Being with you keeps me alive.
Unknown- Wedding Poems About Love
There's always lots of other folks you can be sorry for instead of yourself.
Mrs. Wiggs
It is better to prefer honorable defeat to a mean victory, to lowering the level of our aim that we may more certainly enjoy the complacency of success.
John Ruskin
- Quotes About Success
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Henry vanDyke
- Quotes about Death
When Satan hurls his fiery darts of fear, worry, and doubt in your direction, raise your shield of faith.
Remind him that your God is able; He is faithful, merciful, and good.
Nan Jones
- Quotes about God
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
Charles Stanley
- Quotes about Faith
We don�t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
- Wisdom Quotes
Embracing God's love is allowing that love to guide you in prayer and trusting that even though you don't know how to pray as you ought, God knows and understands. He is inviting you to him in truth, to know and be known.
Kyle Strobel, here Prayer Becomes Real
- Prayer Quotes
Be assured that endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
- Best Poems
Kindness and compassion are among the principal things that make our lives meaningful.
Piero Ferrucci
- Best Wishes To You
If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
Frank Tyger
- All Occasions
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
- Engagement Quotes
If you think you�re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Author Unknown
When we wander from the truth, we drift into aimlessness and eventually despair.
Lilliet Garrison
If your spirits are low, do something; if you have been doing something, do something different.
Edward Everett Hale
