Here are some wonderfully inspiring quotes. I’ll be adding more and I hope that you add to this list! You can email your suggestions to jen@inspiremama.com .
Gratitude
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Khalil Gibran
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. Henry Ward Beecher
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more. David Steindl-Rast
If the only prayer you say in your life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart
“Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (I Thessalonians 5: 16-18)”
Courage
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. Helen Keller
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa
Love
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Kahlil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Kahlil Gibran
Making a Difference
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.