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Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 28, 2014
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life. - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. - Epictetus, 55 AD-135 AD
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice -- keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. - Noah Porter, 1811-1892
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. - Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.- Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck, 1905-1956
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success. - Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1846-1916
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 7, 2014
When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker, 1554-1600
I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she will make the same effort, and have the same hope and faith. - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings, 1818-1885
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 30, 2014
All experience is an arch to build upon. - Henry Adams, 1838-1918
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - Henry Miller, 1891-1980
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1814-1880
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 23, 2014
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand. - Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/1182-1228
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, September 17, 2014
He who would do great things, should not attempt them alone. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
The present moment is a powerful goddess. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius, 121 A.D.- 180 A.D.
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Success often comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. - Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964
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
There are no gains without pains. - Adlai Stevenson, 1900-1965
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, September 3, 2014
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius. - Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD
Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. - Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 26, 2014
God ever works with those who work with will. - Aeschylus, 525 BC-456 BC
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. - Albert Camus, 1913-1960
Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure. - Lao Tzu, 604 B.C.-531 B.C.
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 19, 2014
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done. - Rachel Carson, 1907-1964
Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. - Maude Royden, 1876-1956
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 12, 2014
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first. - Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867-1957
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings, 1818-1885
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. - Henry Miller, 1891-1980
Don't forget to love yourself. - Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles, 1812-1904
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895
Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. - Richard Chenevix Trench, 1807-1886
All experience is an arch to build upon. - Henry Adams, 1838-1918
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 15, 2014
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. - Horace Mann, 1796-1859
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius, 121 AD- 180 AD
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offered, Shall never find it more. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden, 1910-2010
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton, 1643-1727
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 1, 2014
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris, 1917-1986
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington, 1732-1799
Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure. - Lao Tzu, 604 B.C.-531 B.C.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal. - Maude Royden, 1876-1956
We must be willing to relinquish the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abdelkader El Djezairi, 1808-1883
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. - John C. Geikie, 1824-1906
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. - Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. - Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915
A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorothea Brande, 1893-1948
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire, 1694-1778
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot, 1819-1880
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, May 20, 2014
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. - General George S. Patton, 1885-1945
And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave. - Joseph Drake, 1795-1820
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, May 13, 2014
I saw one excellency that was within my reach--it was brevity; and I determined to obtain it. - William Jay, 1769-1953
The years teach much which the days never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
The destiny of man is in his own soul. - Herodotus, c. 484-425 B.C.