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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
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 9, 2011
In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection. - Farrah Gray, 1984-present
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? - Dolores Huerta, 1930-present
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. - Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988
Act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorothea Brande, 1893-1948
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. - George E. Woodberry, 1855-1930
Inspirational Quotes for Monday, July 25, 2011
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. - Joseph Addison, 1672-1719
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Vernon Sanders Law, 1930-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt, 1844-1923
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. - Evelyn Underhill, 1875-1941
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes, 1919-1990
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. - Andre Maurois, 1885-1967
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel, 1907-1972
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 28, 2011
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. - Robert Fritz, 1943-present
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. - Sallust, 86 BC-34 BC
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. - Brendan Behan, 1923-1964
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 21, 2011
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. - Oprah Winfrey, 1954-present
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois, 1931-present
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. - Eugene S. Wilson, 1905-1981
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, June 7, 2011
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. - Kristin Hunter, 1931-2008
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. - Clare Booth Luce, 1903-1987
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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. - Francis Maitland Balfour, 1851-1882
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton, 1886-1967
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. - Robert Ingersoll, 1833-1899