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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