Inspirational Quotes 2004
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Inspirational Quotes for December 28, 2004
From small beginnings come great things. – Proverb
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus. – Carl Lewis, 1961-, American Track Athlete
Inspirational Quotes for December 21, 2004
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867-1957, American Author, ''Little House on the Prairie''
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American Author
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher
Inspirational Quotes for December 14, 2004
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. -James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. -William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert Estabrook
Inspirational Quotes for December 7, 2004
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude, 1818-1894, English Historian
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. - Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith, 1923-, American Journalist, Gossip Columnist
Inspirational Quotes for November 30, 2004
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. --Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -Jack Kinder
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. -John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
Inspirational Quotes for November 23, 2004
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but calmness within the storm. -Anonymous
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. Barbara De Angelis, American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author
CHAMPIONS RISK what others DARE not; DREAM what others think impossible; DO what others say can't be done. Jason James Hun, Author
Inspirational Quotes for November 22, 2004
One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. - Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? -Rabbi Hillel, 30B.C - 9 A.D., Jewish Rabbi, Teacher
Inspirational Quotes for November 16, 2004
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -Bernard M. Baruch, 1870-1965, American Financier
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Inspirational Quotes for November 9, 2004
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."- Nathaniel Hawthorne -{1804-1864 American Novelist}
"You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life. -Les Brown {American Motivator Lecturer}
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.- Clare Booth Luce
Inspirational Quotes for October 26, 2004
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. - Mary Lou Cook
The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life. -Gary Ryan Blair {Goals Coach & Founder of The Goals Guy}
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. -Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
Inspirational Quotes for October 19, 2004
People deal too much with the negative, what is wrong.... Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom. -Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Teacher
At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all. - Unknown
Ask, and it will be given you; Seek, and you will find; Knock, and it will be opened to you. - Bible
Inspirational Quotes for October 12, 2004
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?" George Bernard Shaw
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
Inspirational Quotes for October 4, 2004
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did. -- Don MacRae, President of the Lachlan Group
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Inspirational Quotes for September 28, 2004
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. - Clint Eastwood, Actor
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty- Anne Herbert
Inspirational Quotes for September 21, 2004
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - James Allen
If you put a small value upon youself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back.-Unknown
Inspirational Quotes for September 14, 2004
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." - John Locke, 1632-1704, British Philosopher
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.~ Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared. -Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Inspirational Quotes for September 8, 2004
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. -Helen Keller {1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author & Lecturer}
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. -Nikki Giovanni {American Poet}
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. -Wayne Dyer {American Psychotherapist & Author}
Inspirational Quotes for August 30, 2004
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. -John Ruskin, 1819-1900, English Philosopher
There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence. -Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American Football Coach}
I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
-Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Inspirational Quotes for August 24, 2004
The most essential factor is persistence, - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. -James Whitcomb Riley, 1849-1916, American Poet
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." --Albert Schweitzer, 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.- -Robert Collier, American Writer, Publisher
Inspirational Quotes for August 17, 2004
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness had genius, power and magic in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.- Marabel Morgan
Inspirational Quotes for August 10, 2004
Better to do SOMETHING imperfectly than to do NOTHING flawlessly. -Robert Schuller ,1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden, 1910- ,American Basketball Coach
Two men looked from prison bars. One saw mud...the other, stars. - Unknown
Inspirational Quotes for August 3, 2004
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Inspirational Quotes for July 24, 2004
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.-Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Poet & Essayist}
A life lived in fear is a life half lived' -Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? -Lee Iacocca Retired Automobile Executive
Inspirational Quotes for July 20, 2004
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke, American Poet, Author
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. -Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
There is only one small letter between the words CAN and CAN'T...and that one letter will TOTALLY change your destiny. -Doug Firebaugh, Author, Speaker
Inspirational Quotes for July 13, 2004
That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts; Of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, British Poet
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clark 1917-, British Science Fiction Writer
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Poet & Essayist}
Inspirational Quotes for July 7, 2004
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. -Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, 1821-1881, Russian Novelist
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.-Thomas Paine, 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Inspirational Quotes for June 29, 2004
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt, 1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. --George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
"There are powers inside of you, which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become." – Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Inspirational Quotes for June 22, 2004
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, British-born American Inventor of Telephone
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers, American Advice Columnist
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without
action. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Inspirational Quotes for June 15, 2004
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul." -Charles Buxton, 1823-1871, British Author
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb
Inspirational Quotes for June 12, 2004
You can have anything you want ?if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. - St. Teresa of Avila
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. - Barbara De Angelis
Inspirational Quotes for June 5, 2004
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. - Napoleon Hill
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams
Inspirational Quotes for May 29, 2004
None will improve your lot if you yourself do not. - Bertolt Brecht, 1933
"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." - Bhagavad Gita
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through ?then follow through. - Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker
Inspirational Quotes for May 22, 2004
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing is best after all. - Benjamin Spock
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. - John Ruskin
Inspirational Quotes for May 15, 2004
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. - William Hazlitt
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Elisabeth Guizot
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher
Inspirational Quotes for May 9, 2004
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. - Mike Ditka
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. - Abraham H. Maslow
Inspirational Quotes for April 29, 2004
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." -Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Inspirational Quotes for April 24, 2004
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. - Russell W. Davenport
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Arthur James Balfour
I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking. - The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz
Inspirational Quotes for April 17, 2004
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. -Thomas H. Huxley
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne Dyer
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. - Barbara Sher
Inspirational Quotes for April 9, 2004
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tzu
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart ?this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Lane Allen
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran
Inspirational Quotes for April 2, 2004
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race. - Ernest L. Woodward
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. - Greg Anderson
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views. - Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational Quotes for March 26, 2004
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us. - James Harvey Robinson
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. - Mary Kay Ash
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. - Dale Carnegie
Inspirational Quotes for March 19, 2004
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -Dr. Denis Waitley
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.- Glenn Clark
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
Inspirational Quotes for March 12, 2004
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. -Wayne Dyer
Inspirational Quotes for March 5, 2004
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. - Jim Rohn
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. - Andrew Carnegie
Inspirational Quotes for February 27, 2004
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. - Les Brown
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. - Joshua L. Liebman
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Inspirational Quotes for February 20, 2004
He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat. - Robert Estabrook
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James
Inspirational Quotes for February 13, 2004
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. -Dalai Lama
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard
Inspirational Quotes for February 6, 2004
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. - Wayne Dyer
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. - Beca Allen
Inspirational Quotes for January 30, 2004
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. - Sir James M. Barrie
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame. -Erica Jong
Inspirational Quotes for January 23, 2004
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. - Bertrand Russell
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Inspirational Quotes for January 16, 2004
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
Inspirational Quotes for January 9, 2004
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden
Inspirational Quotes for January 2, 2004
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein
