Inspirational Book Quotes

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity - civilization's backbone - that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization - of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny. ~ Carew Papritz

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. ~ Anne Frank

Some books should be tasted,
Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly ~ Cornelia Funke

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it. ~ Anderson Cooper

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. ~ Paxton Hood

Sad stories make good books ~ Khaled Hosseini

Walk with me now into the very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken. ~ Carew Papritz

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. ~ Wentworth Miller

The Losing of Love ... Like discovering a shard of heaven's handwriting in the snowflake that has landed upon your hand, desperately wishing you could give such beauty to your best friend before it melts away. And what you are left with is an exquisite regret - the eloquent conspiracy of memory - of the moment lived and the moment wished for that never will arrive. ~ Carew Papritz

A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. ~ Laura Bush

The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes. ~ Paul Kropp

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. ~ Chris Prentiss

I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn't give it to you, because I have some great things on it. ~ Robin Sharma

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~ Alan King

He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous. ~ Alex Ferguson

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. ~ Carew Papritz

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Years teach us more than books. ~ Berthold Auerbach

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first. ~ Blaise Pascal

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~ Tom Helm

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends. ~ Alfred Armand Montapert

I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us. ~ Charles Dickens

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. ~ Mark Twain

Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go. ~ Carew Papritz

You are a volume in the divine book
A mirror to the power that created the universe
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself
Whatever you're looking for can only be found
Inside of you ~ Rumi

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. ~ Jamie Lee Curtis

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? ~ Jerry Seinfeld

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. ~ John Lennon

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self. ~ Franz Kafka

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand. ~ Tayeb Salih

The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday. ~ Azhar Ali

Funny business, a woman's career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder
so you can move faster
you forget you'll need them when you go back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common whether we like it or not. Being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter what other careers we've had or wanted. And in the last analysis nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner
or turn around in bed
and there he is. Without that you're not a woman. You're someone with a French provincial office
or a book full of clippings. But you're not a woman. Slow curtain. The end. (from "All About Eve") ~ Bette Davis

There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up these formulations. It's only in the heat of composition that these things occur to you. ~ Paul Auster

What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them. ~ Eleanor Catton

Wounded and nearly blind with fear, I clung to the Scriptures:
'Ask and you shall receive ... '
'Pray without ceasing ... '
'I will do whatever you ask for in My name ... '
Grimly, I shut out another verse, this one from the book of Job: 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. ~ Ron Hall

Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing. ~ Martin Samuel

Don't complain. Be a good person in this wrong world and transform it. ~ Debasish Mridha

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker. ~ Arthur W. Pink

Listen kiddo, by the time you grow up you'll have collected a whole lot of this 'dirt of life' stuff, right, you won't know where it's coming from but it'll pile up, and clothes and pearls won't look as beautiful to you as they do now -- that's for sure. The problem is that dirt, see? You can't ever settle down in one place, you've got to live like you're always, always staring way off into the distance. ~ Banana Yoshimoto

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough! ~ Swami Vivekananda

I think whenever there's potential for beauty, beauty can be found. And everything has potential for beauty. ~ Kamand Kojouri

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere! ~ Dr. Seuss

Once you discover that you can, you must. ~ Al Jarreau

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes. ~ Carl Jung

I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be. ~ A.D. Posey

The greater the pain, the greater the fun. ~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet

I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book. ~ Ricky Gervais

A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow ~ Cecelia Ahern

They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became ... devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work. ~ Christopher Tolkien

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. ~ Oscar Wilde

Fear not! The Lord will rescue and deliver you. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. ~ K.J. Kilton

Christmas does not remind us that God was born over 2000 years ago. It is a time to remember that God was born in our Heart and Lives in our Heart, everyday!-RVM ~ R.v.m.

I am the person you'll see everyday training when everyone else has gone home. I live for the one moment of glory when I save that goal or sink that 3-point shot and score the winning basket. I am the sport, I am the glory, nothing can change that. I am an athlete, no one can forget that. ~ Alexa Wilkinson

I'm not the biggest comic book fan. ~ Fran Kranz

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. ~ Mark Twain

Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor. ~ Bill Toomey

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now! ~ Tim Ferriss

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave. ~ Ronald Reagan

There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure. ~ T.H. White

Our vision is sharp, our goals are clear, our resources are huge, our will is strong and we stand tall, ready to face the challenges ahead. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

He took the pen and book from her and faltered.
"Just write anything – anything trivial that won't matter if it comes to pass."
"Erm..." God, he was useless at this.

Elena's hair turned blue.

"Hey!"
"What?"
"I don't want blue hair! What the hell did you write that for?"
"It seemed trivial."
"Blue hair – blue? That's trivial? What if I can't undo it?"
Karl stared at her blankly. His throat went dry. He felt like a total dickhead, but writing really wasn't his strong point, so he went for humour instead and flashed her a grin.
"I was going to write that all your clothes fall off, but figured you may have a problem with that. This was the second thing that came to mind."

(Karl and Elena) ~ Dianna Hardy

A yummy mummy is a dedicated and loving mom who embodies a healthy lifestyle while retaining a sense of the person she was before having kids. ~ Marina Delio

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. ~ Ella Frank

Baby, I'm not afraid. I've been to hell and back. I'm a free spirit, a wild child and a renegade. ~ Mishi McCoy

He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect. ~ Cora Carmack

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar. ~ Brandon Sanderson