Gilbert K. Chesterton Inspirational Quotations

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it...

Adventure is the champagne of life.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.