Inspiring quotes

Inspiring Quotes

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.--Garth Brooks

He who knows he has enough is rich.--From the Tao Te Ching

I do not read advertisements--[if I did] I would spend all my time wanting things.--The Archbishop of Canterbury

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.— Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito .—Betty Reese

Be the change you want to see in the world .—Mahatma Gandhi

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.— Edward Clarke

If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you.--Lizzie West

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.--Anne Frank

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.--Neil Kinnock

A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all direction. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that. We won't sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.--Dorothy Day

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.--Richard Bach

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.--Chinese Proverb

In one of my classes I ask my students to write on the subject, 'If I were to die tomorrow, how would I live tonight?' Answering this question always brings great insight.--Leo F. Buscaglia

Never doubt that a group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.--Margaret Mead

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