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Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 21, 2015
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. - Epictetus, 55 AD-135 AD
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: "What is my exciting thing for today?" Then I do the day. - Barbara Jordan, 1936-1996
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot overcome. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next good sense; the third, good humor; and the fourth wit. - Sir William Temple, 1628-1699
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 31, 2015
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves. - Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973
There are certain inessential activities--moths of precious time--and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. - Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658
Man is a plant which bears thoughts, just as a rose-tree bears roses and an apple-tree bears apples. - Antoine Fabre D'Olivet, 1767-1825
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 24, 2015
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794
We have the power within, but the secret of success is to employ our power and talents and be prepared for opportunity when it comes. - Walter Matthews, 1926-2012
If you can't accept losing, you can't win. - Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 17, 2015
I believe that true identity is found in creative activity springing from within. It is found when one loses oneself. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906-2001
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. - Friedrich Rückert, 1788-1866
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842
Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations. - John Maxwell, 1947-present
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. - John Ruskin, 1819-1900
Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. - Robert Leighton, 1611-1684
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. - Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 17, 2015
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. - Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa, 1910-1997
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones, 1908-1980
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. - John Milton, 1608-1674
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. - Wendell Phillips, 1811-1884
Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires. - Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 27, 2015
You are never a loser until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka, 1939-present
Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many. - Howard Schultz, 1953-present
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. - John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. - Friedrich Rückert, 1788-1866
Your world is as big as you can make it. - Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1880-1966
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined. - Lucan, 39 AD-65 AD
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol, 1936-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 6, 2015
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. - François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others." - Menander, 342 BC - 291 BC
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. - Marian Wright Edelman, 1939-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 30, 2014
However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose. - François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson, 1630-1694
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 23, 2014
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valéry, 1871-1945
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. - Cornelius Nepos, 110 BC-25 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes, 1904-1996
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar, 1899-1995
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell, 1847-1922
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Every noble work is at first impossible. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924
If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. - John B. Gough, 1817-1886
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
The tissue of life to be we weave with colors all our own, and in the field of destiny we reap as we have sown. - John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 25, 2014
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. - Aubrey Thomas de Vere, 1814-1902
To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. - George Eliot, 1819-1880
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston, 1837-1902
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot, 1819-1880
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden, 1910-2010
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. - Alexander Hamilton, 1755-1804
Only one thing makes a dream impossible: fear of failure. - Paolo Coehlo, 1947-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. - Marian Wright Edelman, 1939-present
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined. - Lucan, 39 AD-65AD
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. - James Fitzjames Stephen, 1829-1894