Heartbreaking Inspirational Quotes

#1. As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

B.C. Forbes

#3. I have great faith that there's a master plan and that even if we don't understand it and even if it's heartbreaking, there's a reason for everything. And I hold on to that.

Terri Irwin

#4. Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

Sloane Kennedy

#5. If you have blank spots instead of stories for part of your life, then that would be a pretty serious thing I think.

John Marsden

#6. When you accomplish a goal, don't cross it out. Instead, write 'victory' next to it and move on to the next one. This way, whenever you have a bad day, all you have to do is to review your victories to feel good about yourself.

Jack Canfield

#7. Pretending or keeping up appearances for the sake of staying married won't bring healing to serious marital wounds any more than a Band-Aid can stop arterial bleeding.

Leslie Vernick

#8. When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#9. Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones.

Viola Davis

#10. A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist.

Arthur Koestler

#11. So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

Brian Henson

#12. They slept huddled together in the rank quilts in the dark and the cold. He held the boy close to him. So thin. My heart, he said. My heart.

Cormac McCarthy