Offbeat Motivational Quotes & Sayings

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. — John Quincy Adams

For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war. — Karl Donitz

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive. — Marie Corelli

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this. — Nick Hornby

When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles. — Paz De La Huerta

A full pure heart with empty pocket is much better than full pocket of money with no heart — Russ

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping. — Bailey White

And so you live like this, day after day, striving and fighting simply to become, or even better - to be. Something better, something more. Something you can live as, live with. A little more developed, a little more define and decluttered. But then there's the people, the world, telling you over and over who you are and what you actually like and who you actually want to be, and so that real voice in your head speaks softer every day, until one day you wake up and it's gone. They killed it, these bastards, with their empty words and useless talk. These people who are acting like stones, walking without bending their knees, without rolling their feet. Talking with empty words and doing tasks without a heart. They broke it. Drowned it. These damn "experts". — Charlotte Eriksson

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended. — Wassily Kandinsky

Turning the other cheek often leaves you with two broken jaws, but Jesus is still King, and still right. — Russell D. Moore

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change. — Vinod Khosla

Because he'd learned as a child that the ones in this world who were really strong, they knew how to fear - and how to keep going even when that fear rose like a howling beast inside. — Cynthia Eden

No one is satisfied with their life's work. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. OKay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on dying. A scar means, I survivied. — Chris Cleave