Does anyone know any inspirational quotes?

Question

about being shy?You know like....breaking out of your shell.

Answer 1

"Your time is limited,

so don't waste it living someone else's life

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

Answer 2

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Robert Cushing

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Herbert Otto

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No longer forward nor behind

I look in hope and fear;

But grateful take the good I find,

The best of now and here.

John G. Whittier

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau both have great writings on just being yourself and not worrying about society. Once your more comfortable with yourself, its easier to break out of your shell. I especially recommend Emerson's Self-Reliance (You will want an abridged version.) If you can't understand it, talk about it with your english teacher, it is a very moving peice.

Answer 3

A great web site with tons of useful quotations

http://www.5000quotations.com

Answer 4

Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away, 'till what we put off 'till tomorrow has now become today. So don't you sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied: Choose to chance the rapids, and dare to dance the tide.

(Garth Brooks)

It's from a song, but I find it very inspiring when I'm facing an obstacle (such as being shy).

Answer 5

“No matter how many times you break my heart I can still love you with all the little pieces”.

“I’d rather have a broken heart because that means I can love you more with all the little pieces”.

“To the world you are one person, to one person you are the world”.

“I turn to you as a place to rest my heart”.

“Many people will touch your heart. But only special people will leave fingerprints that last forever”.



“If one flower could express how much I love you, I would have a garden”.

“We may not be close in distance but we’re close in heart.”

“If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart coz hearts can break but circles go on forever”.

“Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met”.

“I thought I loved him, but he had to break my heart for me to know what true love really is”.

“I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love”.

“Friends from the heart are friends forever”.

“If I could hold one star for every time you make me smile I would have the entire sky in the palm of my hand”.

“A friend reaches for your hand but touches your heart”.

“Many people will walk in and out of your lives. But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”.

“Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly”.

“If I could hug you every time I thought about you I would never let you go”.

“A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more”.

“Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop”.

“If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever”.

“A friend is an ear to listen, a hand to hold, a shoulder to cry on and a heart to feel”.

“A friend in need is a friend indeed”.

“There are gold ships and silver ships but the best ships are friend ships”.  

“Love the heart that hurts you but never hurt the heart that loves you”.

“If water was a kiss, I'd send you the sea. If a hug was a leaf, I'd send you a tree. If love was forever, I'd send you eternity”.

“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend”.

“Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship

doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart”.

“Tears are words the heart cant express”.

“I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you”.

“I want to be in your arms, where you hold me tight and never let go”.

“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden”.

“If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will”.

“When I miss you, I don't have to go far ... I just have to look inside my heart because that's where I'll find you”.

“When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but you know I'm always there”.

“I’d rather have the heart to help than the right to love.

There’s a love that only you can give, a smile that only your lips can show, a twinkle that can only be seen in your eyes and my life that only you can complete.

To have a friend like you is like find a silver heart in a bag of sand.

If I had the letters HRT I could Add EA to get heart or U to get hurt. I would rather have U to get hurt than have a heart without you.

You are the sunshine in my day, the wind in my sky, the waves in my ocean and the beat in my heart

If I had to choose between loving you and breathing, I would use my last breath to say 'I love you'.

Each time I miss you, a star falls down from the sky. So if you look up and find it dark, I missed you too much.

To the world you are 1 person, to one person you are the world.

You not only put a smile on my face, you put a smile in my heart.

A hug for you means I need you. A kiss for you means I love you. A call for you means I'm missing you.

You may be out of my sight but you will never be out of my heart.

Whenever we're not together, my life is life a broken pencil. It has no point.

A million hearts would not be enough to carry all my love for you.

It takes a strong heart to love. It takes a stronger heart to continue to love after it has been hurt.

It takes someone special to read this.

A true friend sees your first tear, catches the second and stops the third.

Answer 6

Betty Warren: She's smiling. Is she happy?

Mrs. Warren: The important thing is not to tell anyone.

Betty Warren: She looks happy. So, what does it matter?

Mrs. Warren: Don't wash your dirty laundry in public.

Answer 7

It kinda works for bing shy, but i just like the quote.

"Fate and temperament are two words with one and the same concept."

It means to me that you control your own fate, so stop being shy.