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Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 31, 2012
My father taught me how to be a man -- and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants. - Kevin Smith, 1970-present
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. - Cullen Hightower, 1923-2008
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. - Juvenal, 55 AD-127 AD
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. - Paul Tournier, 1898-1986
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 17, 2012
No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. - Po Bronson, 1964-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 10, 2012
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. - Andre Malraux, 1901-1976
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. - Martina Horner, 1939-present
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, January 4, 2012
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - The Dalai Lama, 1935-present
If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell, 1883-1963
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action. - Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age. - Barack Obama, 1961-present
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. - Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen, 1953-present
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve, 1952-2004
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. - Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 13, 2011
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper. - Randy Pausch, 1960-2008
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas a Kempis, 1380-1471
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. - Solon, 638 BC-559 BC
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. - Ellen Goodman, 1941-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 29, 2011
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. - Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 15, 2011
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. - Pearl Buck, 1892-1973
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. - Fritz Künkel, 1889-1956
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 8, 2011
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. - Pearl Buck, 1892-1973
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. - Fritz Künkel, 1889-1956
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Life is full of surprises and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. - Condoleeza Rice, 1954-present
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. - Arlo Guthrie, 1947-present
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time. - Steven Spielberg, 1946-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919
No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Plato, 427 BC-347 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 18, 2011
We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it? - Betty White, 1922-present
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. - Andre Malraux, 1901-1976
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 11, 2011
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Ettiene De Grellet, 1773-1855
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. - Richard Feynman, 1918-1988
Deeds, not words shall speak me. - John Fletcher, 1579-1625
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 4, 2011
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. - Sallust, 86 BC-34 BC
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. - George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. - Agesilaus the Second, 444 BC-360 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. - Malcolm Gladwell, 1963-present
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey, 1954-present
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. - Robert J. Shiller, 1946-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. - Jim Hightower, 1943-present
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. - Sydney Smith, 1771-1845
Imagination is more important than knowledge... - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Humility is no substitute for a good personality. - Fran Lebowitz, 1950-present
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman, 1945-present
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. - Henry Ford, 1863-1947
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, September 7, 2011
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
An honor is not diminished for being shared. - Lois McMaster Bujold, 1949-present
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up. - Anne Lamott, 1954-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. - Oscar Levant, 1906-1972
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. - Richard Nixon, 1913-1994
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. - John Barth, 1930-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 23, 2011
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. - Maxwell Maltz, 1899-1975
Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?' - Johann K. Lavater, 1741-1801
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides, 484 BC-406 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, August 17, 2011
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt, 1778-1830
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931