Below are some inspirational quotes. Feel free to leave others in the comment section below!

• “You cannot be half a saint. You must be a whole saint or no saint at all.” - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
• “Oh how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: ‘Today if you hear God’s voice, harden not your heart.’ Let us not put off for one moment to another what we ’should’ do, because the next moment is not yet ours!” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” - 1 John 3:16-18
• “Idleness begets a life of discontent. It develops self-love, which is the cause of all our miseries, and renders us unworthy to receive the favors of divine love.” - St. Ignatius of Loyola
• “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” - Galatians 5:22
• “When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.” - Agapet
• “The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” - Charles Du Bos
• “Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” - Louisa May Alcott
• “Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.” - Erastus Wiman
• “The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. The mothers are from Babylon but the daughters are from Jerusalem. Despise temptations and embrace tribulations. No, my child, let the wind blow and do not think that the noise of the leaves is the clash of arms.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “It is not a sin merely to have impure thoughts. Dispelling them is an exercise in virtue…. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.” - Epictetus
• “Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.” - Propertius
• “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth.” - Albert Schweitzer
• “But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” - Albert Camus
• “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Gandhi
• “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson
• “Humility is necessary not only for the acquisition of virtues, but even for salvation. For the gate of Heaven, as Christ Himself testifies, is so narrow that it admits only little ones.” - St. Bernard
• “Stand fast, therefore, in this conduct and follow the example of the Lord, ‘firm and unchangeable in faith, lovers of the brotherhood, loving each other, united in truth,’ helping each other with the mildness of the Lord, despising no man.” - St. Polycarp, Letter to the Philippians
• “When you see anyone who desires esteem and honors and avoids comtempt, and who when contradicted or neglected shows resentment and takes it ill, you may be sure that such a one, though he were to perform miracles, is very far from perfection, for all his virtue is without foundation.” - St. Thomas Aquinas
• “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” - 1 John 3:16-18
• “Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.” - Pope St. Leo the Great
• “Be careful to give no credit to yourself for anything; if you do, you are stealing from God, to whom alone every good thing is due.” - St. Vincent de Paul
• “The patient and humble endurance of the Cross - whatever nature it may be - is the highest work we have to do.” - St. Katherine Drexel
• “Temptations, discouragement and unrest are the wares offered by the enemy. Remember this: if the devil makes noise it is a sign that he is still outside and not yet within. That which must terrify us is his peace and concord with the human soul.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” - 2 Timothy 2:22
• “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” - Eph 6:10-11
• “Certainly nothing can so effectually humble us before the mercy of God as the multitude of his benefits. Nor can anything so much humble us before His justices as the enormity of our innumerable offences. Let us consider what He has done for us and what we have done against Him.” - St. Francis de Sales
• “Pride makes us forgetful of our eternal interests. It causes us to neglect totally the care of our soul.” - St. John Baptiste de la Salle
• “Be assured that he who shall always walk faithfully in God’s presence, always ready to give Him an account of all his actions, shall never be separated from Him by consenting to sin.” - St. Thomas Aquinas
• “When anyone has really given up his sins, he must not be content simply with bewailing them. He also must give up, leave far behind, and fly from anything which is capable of leading him in the direction of them again. In other words, my dear brethren, we must be ready to suffer anything rather than fall back into those sins we have just confessed. People should be able to see a complete change in us; otherwise, we have not merited Absolution and it could be possible that we have indeed committed sacrilege!” - St. John Vianney
• “Should we fall into sin, let us at once humble ourselves sorrowfully in His presence, and then, with an act of unbounded confidence, let us throw ourselves into the ocean of His goodness where every failing will be cancelled and anxiety will be turned into love.” - St. Paul of the Cross
• “Smooth seas do not a skilled mariner make.” - English Proverb
• “I tell you, there will likewise be more joy in heaven over one repentent sinner than over 99 righteous people who have no need to repent.” - Luke 15:7
• “The gates of hell shall not prevail against [the Church].” - Matt 16:18
• “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and a door round about my lips: That my heart may not incline to evil words, and seek excuses in sins.” - Psalm CXI
• “Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth, the Blessèd Sacrament. There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the one true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
• “The phrase ‘heart of Christ’ can refer to Sacred Scripture, which makes known his heart, closed before the Passion, as the Scripture was obscure. But the Scripture has been opened since the Passion; since those who from then on have understood it, consider and discern in what way the prophecies must be interpreted.” - St. Thomas Aquinas, Expositio in Psalmus
• “What you have as heritage
  Take now as task.
  For thus you will make it
  Your own.” - Goethe, Faust
• “There is no difficulty over Christ’s being present in the sacrament as in a sign; the great difficulty is in the fact that He is really in the sacrament, as He is in heaven. And so believing this is especially meritorious.” - In IV Sent.
• “On the authority of God who reveals himself to us, by faith we believe that which cannot be grasped by human faculties (cf. Catechism #1381); also: This kind of presence corresponds to the virtue of faith, for the presence of the Body and Blood of Christ cannot be detected or discerned by any way other than faith.” - Origen
• “Being obedient she became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race.” - St. Irenaeus
• “Life is an unanswered question; but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.” - Tennessee Williams
• “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” - Carl Sandberg
• “The beauty I beheld transcendeth measure
  Not only past or reach, but surely I believe
  That only He who made it enjoyeth it complete.” - Dante
• “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.” - David Hume
• “Christ, the Master of humility, manifests His Truth only to the humble and hides Himself from the proud.” - St. Vincent Ferrer
• “He who faithfully prays to God for the necessaries of this life is both mercifully heard, and mercifully not heard. For the physician knows better than the sick man what is good for the disease.” - St. Augustine
• “Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.” - Charles Kingsley
• “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” - G.K. Chesterton
• “The greatest homage to truth is to use it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow; Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Gandhi
• “The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole.” - Tao Te Ching
• “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” - Aristotle
• “Without freedom from the past [through Penance and Reconciliation], there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.” - Krishnamurti
• “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 3:13-14
• “Hope is the thing with feathers
  That perches in the soul
  And sings the tune without words
  And never stops at all.” - Emily Dickinson
• “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” - Martin Luther King
• “Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.” - G.K. Chesterton
• “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” - Abraham Lincoln
• “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” - Abraham Lincoln
• “What is morally wrong can never be advantageous.” - Cicero
• “A great man is always willing to be little.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” - C.S. Lewis
• “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” - C.S. Lewis
• “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” - C.S. Lewis
• “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis
• “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Reality is merely an illusion — abeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein
• “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” - Oscar Wilde
• “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde
• “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” - Aristotle
• “When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” - Erasmus
• “An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.” - C.S. Lewis
• “Christianity, if false, is of no importance; and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be s moderately important.” - C.S. Lewis
• “There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done;” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”" - C.S. Lewis
• “You don’t have a soul — you are a Soul. You have a body.” - C.S. Lewis
• “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” - C.S. Lewis
• “The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.” - G.K. Chesterton
• “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” - Mark Twain
• “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.” - G.K. Chesterton
• “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.” - Voltaire
• “Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” - Voltaire
• “What you are will show in what you do.” - Thomas Edison
• “I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.” - Thomas Edison
• “Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.” - St. Francis de Sales
• “A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.” - G.K. Chesterton
• “Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.” - Paul Clodel
• “I see that Christianity is dying. We no longer know what those spires are doing above our towns since they are no longer the prayer of any of us. We do not know the meaning of those great buildings, surrounded today by railroad stations and hospitals, and from which the people themselves have chased the monks. We do not know what those stucco crosses stand for on the graves.” - Jacques Rivière
• “I believe in Christianity as I believe the Sun rises, not because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.” - C.S. Lewis
• “What is most resistant to salvation is not sin but habit.” - Charles Peguy
• “A lie is far dearer than the truth. It costs the whole man.” - Friedrich Hebbel
• “[A fanatic is] one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” - Winston Churchill
• “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” - Aristotle
• “Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “When you have distractions, don’t distract yourself still more by stopping to consider the why and the wherefore. Just as a traveler who misses his way returns to the right road as soon as he is aware of it, you should continue to meditate without stopping in the distractions which you have.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “Ignore ridicule: Be always faithful to God in keeping the promises made to Him, and do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish. Know that the saints were always sneered at by the world and worldlings; they have trampled them under foot and have triumphed over the world and its maxims.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.” - Confuscius
• “Religion without God is a cruel idolatry, and attempts at happiness without firm conviction of truth are delusional.” - Fr. George Rutler
• “Be firm in your resolution. Stay in the ship in which Christ has placed you, and let the storm and hurricane come. Long live Jesus! You will not perish. What is there to fear? Let the world turn upside down. Let everything be in darkness, smoke and noise. God is with us!” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.” - St. John of the Cross
• “Oh how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: “Today if you hear God’s voice, harden not your heart.” Let us not put off for one moment to another what we “should” do, because the next moment is not yet ours! ” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “The Church herself is a field, within which seeds and weeds, the good and the wicked, grow together, a place where there is room to grow, to be converted and above all to imitate God’s patience. The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.” - St. Augustine
• “The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.” - St. Alphonsus Liguori
• “No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess …. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion, without which the soul is worth nothing.” - St. Catherine of Siena
• “To desire to be poor but not be inconvenienced by poverty, is to desire the honor of poverty and the convenience of riches.” - St. Francis de Sales
• “Far, far from the Christian be the love of novelty! God hates the proud and obstinate mind.” - St. Pius X
• “It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.” - St. Teresa of Ávila
• “The good thoughts which God gives you in prayer are relics. Gather them carefully together in order to translate them into acts, and you will gladden the heart of God.” - St. Vincent de Paul
• “Never rise from the table without having given thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.” - St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• “We do not have to talk very much in order to pray well. We know that God is there in His holy tabernacle; let us open our hearts to Him; let us rejoice in His Presence: This is the best prayer.” - St. John Vianney
• “Who teaches the soul, if not God?” - St. John of the Cross
• “If my conscience were burdened with all the sins it is possible to commit, I would still go and throw myself into our Lord’s arms, my heart all broken up with contrition. I know what tenderness He has for any prodigal child of His that comes back to Him.” - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
• “Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death.” - St. Stephen of Hungary
• “There is no sin or wrong that gives a man a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.” - St. Catherine of Siena
• “Every virtue in your soul is a precious ornament which makes you dear to God and to man. But holy purity, the queen of virtues, the angelic virtue, is a jewel so precious that those who possess it become like the angels of God in Heaven, even though clothed in mortal flesh.” - St. John Bosco
• “To be perfect in our vocation is nothing else than to fulfill the duties which our state of life obliges us to perform, and to accomplish them well, and only for the honor and love of God.” - St. Francis de Sales
• “All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone - for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.” - St. John Vianney
• “Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.” - St. Francis of Assisi
• “When the Lord knows that good health is necessary for our soul’s welfare, He sends it to us; and when we need sickness, He sends that too. Sickness makes us discover who we are.” - St. Teresa of Ávila
• “Many people would like to attain union with God but they cannot bear the contradictions he sends them. They hate the sickness which strikes them, or the poverty they suffer, or the insults they receive. Since they cannot be resigned, they never succeed in reaching total union with God.” - St. Alphonsus Liguori
• “Faith. It is a pity to see how frequently many Christians have it on their lips and yet how sparingly they put it into their actions. You would think it a virtue to be preached only, and not one to be practiced.” - St. Josemaria Escrivá
• “In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.” - St. Thomas Aquinas
• “If something uncharitable is said in your presence, either speak in favor of the absent, or withdraw, or if possible, stop the conversation.” - St. John Vianney
• “When we find ourselves being carried away by anger or tempted by some other passion, let us reflect on what privileges we have been granted, what Spirit it is whose presence we enjoy, and this thought will check in us those unruly passions.” - St. John Chrysostom
• “Everyone, past, present and future will be judged. Now, then, is the time for mercy, while the time to come will be the time for justice only. For that reason, the present times is ours to repent, but the future time will be God’s alone for judgment. While there is breath there is hope.” - St. Thomas Aquinas
• “To rely on our talents is a cause of great loss. When someone places confidence in his own prudence, knowledge, and intelligence, God, To make him know and see his insufficiency, withdraws from him His help and leaves him to work by himself. This is often why our undertakings miserably fail.” - St. Vincent de Paul
• “Souls eager to arrive at union with God must accept, without excusing themselves, every correction or rebuke, even if not wholly deserved, and even if wholly unjust. It takes great humility to find oneself unjustly condemned and be silent, and to do this is to imitate the Lord, who set us free from all our sins.” - St. Teresa of Ávila