inspirational quotes for women

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~Frederick W. Cropp



You're not dumb, or stupid, just thoroughly wrong. ~Jerry Kopke



Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash



The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ~William Westmoreland



Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. ~Henry David Thoreau



It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. ~Dylan Thomas



The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright



I've been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They're called naps. ~Merri Brownworth



I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990



Antanaclasis: repeating a single word but with a different meaning each time. This is a common type of pun and is often found in slogans. Example: "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." ~Vince Lombardi



Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"



An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette



Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?



Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford



'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron



Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? ~Richard Fleischer



Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is to small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook



The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The end of labor is to gain leisure. ~Aristotle