Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” ~ Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman.

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”~ Horace Mann

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The three signs of great men are — generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.” ~Otto von Bismarck, The First Chancellor of Germany

“To generous souls every task is noble.”~ Euripides, the Greek Tragedian

“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”~ Jean-Paul Sartre, The french existentialist philosopher and novelist.

“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.”~Thornton Wilder

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” ~H. Jackson Brown

“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”~ Jean-Paul Sartre

“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”~ Winston Churchill

“Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.” ~Pierre Corneille

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”~ Albert Camus

“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”~Albert Camus

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” ~Mother Teresa

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ~Kahlil Gibran

More Kahlil Gibran Quotes.

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”~Buddha

“What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interests.”~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld the French author of maxims and memoirs.

“Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule — these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.” From the Bhagavad Gita

I have another site on mostly on love quotes, but these love quotes are about inspiration. Love quotes that will inspire you. You see, if one can cross the ocean and climb the mountains for love, it can be a very strong motivational and inspirational tool. And also some quotes that will inspire heartbroken lovers to move on.. Yes, and that is very important moving on.. How long can one continue to nurse an ailing heart? You may think that You may not be able to love someone as you loved him/her, but if your new lover loves you more than you ever loved your old flame? Like they say, anything is possible in Love and well, love.

Let us see some quotes about love that will inspire us to move mountains, beginning with what Lao Tzu said:

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ by Lao Tzu

“You can do what you want, but saving love doesn’t bring any interest.”
~ Mae West, so don’t save it for the one who is gone… Give it and get more in return..

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.”

“Love for a loss can make you die, but love for a life will grant you immortality.”

“The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.”
~William Shakespeare

Life without love is like a tree; Without blossom and fruit.
~ by Khalil Gibran

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
~Sam Keen

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
~ Bill Wilson

“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.”

“When you love, there’s no such thing as loving a little, but loving all the way. Love may not ask you to give up your life, but it will require lots of sacrifices.”

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Some Giving Quotes and sayings!

“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”~ Albert Einstein

“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”~Anne Frank

“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s important to give it all you have while you have the chance.”~ Shania Twain, yes that Shania who sings some awesome songs

“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”~ Publilius Syrus

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”~ Kahlil Gibran

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”~ Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”~ Lao-Tzu

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.” ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”~ Princess Elizabeth

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”~William Shakespeare

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” ~George Eliot

Some Inspirational quotes on self respect.

“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else.”
~Cardinal De Retz

“I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.”
~ Muhammad Ali (The Boxer)

“Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.”
~Anna Gould

” Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
~Joan Didion

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
~Unknown

“Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.”
~Virginia Woolf

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”
~John Herschel

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.”
~ Gail Sheehy

“Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.”
~J. Petit-Senn

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
~Clint Eastwood

“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”
~William J. H. Boetcker

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
~Les Brown

Here is a collection of my favorite Abraham Lincoln Quotes on inspiration. The best of the lot being, “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ”

It is often the common folks who feels most miserable, and needs the most motivation because they feel they aren’t special. Abraham Lincoln had to say this about the Common People.
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. “

Here are some inspirational quotes on leadership

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” ~George S. Patton

“If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. “~ Admiral Grace Hopper

“The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. “~ Henry Miller

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.” ~ Albert Einstein

“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”~Eric Hoffer

“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. “~ Ross Perot

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. “~Abraham Lincoln

Starting with this famous quote by Karl Marx, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ”
We have a compiled our collection of Motivational and inspirational quotes on Ability.

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” ~ John Wooden

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S Forbes

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”~ Rosalynn Carter

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~Helen Keller

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.” ~Didacus Stella

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S. Forbes

“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.” ~Mary Lou Retton

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” ~Stevie Wonder

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” ~Chinese proverb

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” ~Francis Bacon

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” ~Winston Churchill

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.” ~Andrew Carnegie

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.” ~Abraham Maslow

“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.” ~John Henry Newman

“It is difficult to tell how much men’s minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.”~ Cicero

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” ~Bob Hope

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”~Henry James

“A little more than kin, and less than kind!” ~William Shakespeare

“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life - reciprocity.” ~Confucius

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” ~Blaise Pascal

“On that best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”~William Wordsworth

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”~Goethe

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ” ~Dalai Lama

“The only religion is kindness.”~ Dalai Lama

“One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.”~ Malayan Proberb

“A friend is a second self.”~ Aristotle

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”~ Lord Byron

“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”~ Sir Francis Bacon

“Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.”~ Cicero

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”~ John Leonard

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out” ~Walter Winchell

“The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”~ Saint Jerome

” My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” ~Henry Ford

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”~ Abraham Lincoln

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”~ Alice Walker

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”~ Henry David Thoreau

“Friendship demands the ability to do without it.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”~ Charles Dickens

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”~ Woodrow Wilson

“Faith is a higher faculty than reason.”~ Philip James Bailey

“The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.”~ Abraham Maslow

“Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.”~ Emily Dickinson

“Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see.”~ William Newton Clark

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.”~ Oscar Wilde

“Mirror of constant faith, revered and mourn’d!” ~Homer

“Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.”~Sir William Osler

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”~ C.S. Lewis

“O welcome pure-ey’d Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!” ~John Milton

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson