Inspiration

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders.

Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,

bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,

it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful,

for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.

Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower,

and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe

that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad,

but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished

by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

Dale Carnegie

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Victor Hugo

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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin

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Other men see only a hopeless end, but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope.

Gilbert M. Beeken

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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

G.K. Chesterton

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What God expects us to attempt, He also enables us to achieve.

Stephen Olford

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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

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Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.

Lauren Raffo

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

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Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

Winston Churchill

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Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Mary W. Stewart

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Edmund Burke

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Albert Einstein

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

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When God made time, He made enough of it.

Celtic Saying

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Erma Brombeck

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Man’s mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorothea Brande