Top 589 Grieving Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . . Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the tempering process.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick off the quarter but haven't been heard from since, or don't realize that their actions are often more demotivating than inspirational.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you'd get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It's empowering, and it's inspirational as well, because you're just like, 'This is great!'

In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

I've been very lucky and fortunate to meet people that are very inspirational in their spirits, too, and not just as filmmakers - in their personal life. I mean, Steven Spielberg is very inspirational just to sit down and talk for an hour, like Ingmar Bergman was. They know so much about life and, you know, movie-making, so it's just wonderful to be around those people.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show

Ajamu Baraka is very inspirational.

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

We would not - from here - counsel anyone to be guided by influences from without. ... If these come as in inspirational writings from within, and not as guidance from others - that is different ... the inspirational may develop the soul of the individual, while the automatic may rarely reach beyond the force that is guiding or directing.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.