Inspirational & Motivational Quotes: E-H

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
- Ausonius

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard

Either we're pulling together or we're pulling apart. There's really no in-between.
- Kobi Yamada

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
- Henry Van Dyke

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Even fools are thought to be wise when they are silent. When they keep their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
- Proverbs 17:28

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude-Adrien Helvetius

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone has a plan until they are hit.
- Evander Holyfield

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
— Nolan Bushnell

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms. To choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
- Viktor Frankl

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Faith doesn't mean the absence of fear. It means having the energy to go ahead, right alongside the fear.
- Sharon Salzberg

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith never knows where it is being led. But it knows and loves the One who is leading.
- Oswald Chambers

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do, and plenty of time in which to do it.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.
- Philippians 4:8

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
– William James

Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd...and never well mended.
- Benjamin Franklin

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him.
- Anonymous

Great character is the cumulative result when great pain and great disappointment intersect in a man with a teachable spirit.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
- T.S. Eliot

Handling criticism: if it's untrue, disregard it. If it's unfair, keep from irritation. If it's ignorant, smile. If it's justified, learn from it.

Happiness exists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldome to man in the course of his life.
- Benjamin Franklin

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
- Andrew Carnegie

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.
- Moorish Proverb

He who talks without thinking runs more risks than he who thinks without talking.

He who thinks twice before saying nothing is wise.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
- Tom Brokaw

Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Honor is better than honors.
- Abraham Lincoln

Hope...is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success...but rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
- Václav Havel

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
- Jean Kerr

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

How from age to age the art of painting continually declines and deteriorates when painters have no other standard than work already done: The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard...the Romans...they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Humility precedes honor.
- Proverbs 18:12