Top 99 Inspirational Country Quotes
#1. Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith
#2. There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
Robert James Waller
#3. I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
Richard Wright
#4. But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
#5. But where shall I start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large, I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
Elie Wiesel
#6. Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.
Nikki Sixx
#7. We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and...wherever they go in this wide domain...will truly feel, 'Here I am at home.
Winston Churchill
#8. I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.
Jodi Picoult
#10. I can still choose to be a person who is kind and full of love, a person who extends compassion to her fellow humans and even if I feel like our country is regressing a little, even if I'm embarrassed of our leader I still have control over the kind of person I am.
Ashley Mardell
#11. Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country.
Laurie Nadel
#12. To learn why a country or society is developed or poor, don't study their financial condition but do a psychoanalysis of them. Most often, the development of a country or society depends on thoughts and ideas and not on their financial condition.
Debasish Mridha
#13. I have said it loud and clear: Beware, men, lest women deprive you of all the leadership positions in the country.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#14. Not everyone is violent in a violence infected country or society. In those countries and societies many parents unknowingly teach their children hatred and violence.
Debasish Mridha
#15. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. Education is the only currency which you can spend in every country of the world without losing its value.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Yeah, do it for your people
Do it for your pride
How are you ever gonna know if you never even try?
Do it for your country
Do it for your name
The Script
#18. What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we're fearful, we become divided. When we're courageous and have good leadership, we unite.
Keith Ellison
#19. Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.
Roald Dahl
#20. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.
Barack Obama
#21. The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.
Mordecai Richler
#22. America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.
Barack Obama
#23. Give me a sword and I will slay a man, give me a voice and I will slay a country.
Konrad
#24. Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.
Abdul Kalam
#25. The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.
Danny Wallace
#26. He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.
Jack Kerouac
#27. Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.
Hyeonseo Lee
#28. I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
Duncan Hines
#29. President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
Anna Deavere Smith
#30. That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedicated to his people and his country. And I am proud to have been his lover.
C.S. Pacat
#31. It is not important how they treat the most privileged (or most famous people) [in a country], but how they treat the less privileged ones.
Christina Rickardsson
#32. The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.
Septima Poinsette Clark
#33. I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now ... Come further up, come further in!
C.S. Lewis
#34. When we are in a foreign country we live with a fervor rooting from knowing that our days there are numbered, yet if the number of days in lives is numbered, are we not to live our everyday lives with that same zeal?
Forrest Curran
#35. But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.
Kate Atkinson
#36. Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision.
Debasish Mridha
#37. In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
E.B. White
#38. We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.
J.C. Villamere
#39. It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.
Robin Hobb
#40. You were wrong, commander. Whatever chains you try to place on me, I will always, always, rise from them. I'm not buying my freedom, because you never owned it. But I am taking it back, for me, and for my country.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#41. If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.
James Joyce
#42. America is a country built on unity, hard work and diligent pursuit of personal goals leading to collective success.
George M. Gilbert
#43. This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.
George M. Gilbert
#44. This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom.
Jon Steele
#45. We cannot improve ourselves or our country without improving our educational system and educating ourselves.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!
Rick Warren
#47. Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
Nelson Mandela
#48. Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds that allowed you to escape to another country or time. Worlds built piece by piece of ink and punctuation.
Jamie Michaels
#49. When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win when threatened.
George M. Gilbert
#51. I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon, the thunder rolls, and the lightenings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm I commit my country.
Josiah Quincy
#52. A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#53. The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education.
Debasish Mridha
#55. The strength of a country derives from the educational levels of the individuals in that nation.
Debasish Mridha
#56. You are part of the fabric of your personal and professional community, country, and world. When you actualize your potentials in your own unique way, our world actualizes its potential, too.
Jo-Ann L. Tremblay
#57. The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
Rabindranath Tagore
#59. The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
Robert F. Kennedy
#60. Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated.
Debasish Mridha
#61. In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#62. I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent
childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.
Michelle Richmond
#63. I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.
K. Hari Kumar
#64. I know people always talk about living in the middle of nowhere - there's always another place (some city, some foreign country) they'd rather be. But it's moments like this that I feel like I live in the middle of somewhere. My somewhere.
David Levithan
#65. If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children)
Jim Rogers
#66. The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine
#67. It could take few drops of cooking oil to change your life, your neibourghs,your community, your village, your city, your county or your entire country.
Euginia Herlihy
#68. Lord pls give me quality problems like where to bank my Billions!which country to go shopping,should I buy a Bugatti or Ferrari?problem like where do I park my Jet Eleda masun!!!Oya turnup
Kazeem Akintilo
#69. ...sometimes adventuring into the country where I have lived for so many years - it is beautiful enough, most of the time, for Gods to dwell in...
David Grayson
#70. A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country,
but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.
Daniel S. Green
#71. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.
Ronald C. White Jr.
#72. Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells in each human heart ... Quote from "Ms. Quixote Goes Country", a truthful novel.
LEVega
#73. Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.
Yogi Berra
#75. My parents are in many ways embodiments of the American Dream. They came to this country with basically nothing but the clothes on their backs, and after twenty years of hard work, sweat, and sacrifice, they were getting divorced, totally broke, and deep in therapy.
David Henry Sterry
#77. The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#78. It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America's faults. No country is perfect ... We can't reach the top of the mountain if we don't fix the injustice and confront our lies.
Keith Ellison
#79. The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks.
Shireen Jeejeebhoy
#80. You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.
Andrew Long
#81. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
J.F. Kennedy
#82. Perhaps in the stillness of a summer night they will feel compelled to walk barefoot down a moonlit country
road and search for the magic that connects all beings in the Circle of Life.
Autumn Morning Star
#83. Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
#84. I have never felt so alive - so free - so proud. I love my country. I love my America.
Debasish Mridha
#85. We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?
Jimmy Carter
#86. Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#87. Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#88. Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.
Gene Simmons
#89. Love is the battlefield, those who want true love has to fight for it. Beyond differences created by humans such as caste, creed, country, religion, race and culture.
Santosh Kalwar
#90. Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.
Sandra Fluke
#91. I ain't never saw a hearse with a luggage rack." (Quote by George Strait, country singer, and appearing at the end of Bob Mitchell's memoir, Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death.
George Strait
#92. Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#93. A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
Aaron Sorkin
#94. Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#95. One of the plagues of our day is that it's easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless in the face of massive violence, poverty and injustice around the globe...One of the greatest needs in this country is for us to have some hope, and to feel empowered that as ordinary people we can make a difference.
David Hartsough
#96. I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!
Sara Sheridan
#97. Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land
L. Frank Baum
#98. Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream?
The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.
Alan Moore
