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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
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