inspirational quotes and pictures

I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters



He was ever precise in promise-keeping. ~William Shakespeare



After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb



Childhood is a short season. ~Helen Hayes



Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. ~Edward Gorey



It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



There's another powerful benefit of skipping which is that it adds joy and positive energy to the world. Seeing adults consumed by the joy of skipping sends a compelling message about the power of the spirit over fear. When you learn to turn off your logical mind and get lost in the spirit of skipping, it's like exercising a muscle that will help you deal with other fears. As external events become increasingly intense, that kind of inner strength will be more important than ever. ~Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com



A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau



Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or "programmers." ~Peter F. Drucker



A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn



Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. ~George Horace Lorimer



I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam. ~Richard Bach



Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. ~Lora Brody



Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. ~Aldous Huxley



Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836



Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner. ~Will Rogers



Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch



Nothing is sad on a beautiful morning save to look down and realize you just had the last sip of coffee and the mug sits indifferently empty. ~Terri Guillemets