"Great spirits are
often violently opposed by mediocre minds"
- Albert Einstein
"Finish each day and
be done with it. You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
- Malcolm Cowley
"Maturity is the ability
to do a job whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending
it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."
-Ann Landers
"Go out into the world
today and love the people you meet.
Let your presence light new light in the
hearts of people."
-Mother Teresa
"Darkness cannot drive
out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love
can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Man cannot remake
himself without suffering,
for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
- Alexis Carrel
"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friend's forehead."
- Chinese Proverb
"Any fool can make a rule"
- Henry David Thoreau
"Without Victory, there is no survival"
- Winston Churchill
"It is vital that people
"count their blessings:
to appreciate what they possess without having to
undergo its actual loss."
- Abraham Maslow
"All problems become
smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them.
Touch a thistle timidly,
and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spine crumbles."
- William S. Halsey
"Am I not
destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"Friendship is a
promise of future loyalty, loyalty no matter what comes.
Promises are the
bricks of life and trust is the mortar."
- Stephen Carter, "The Emperor
of Ocean Park"
"Always aim for
achievement, and forget about success."
- Helen Hayes
"So-called aging is
not the deterioration of life, but the deterioration of our faith, our
enthusiasm, our will to progress."
- Connie Fillmore
"The fire of anger
only burns the angry."
- Chinese Proverb
"He is a wise man who
does not grieve for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which
he has."
- Epictetus
"Why can't life's
problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?"
- A.C. Jolly
"Here are the two
best prayers I know:
'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you,
thank you."
- Anne Lamott
"The real art of
conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to
leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Dorothy Nevill
"The talent for
being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you
don't have."
- Woody Allen
"The way I see it, if you
want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
-Dolly Parton
"Don’t let the fear of
striking out hold you back."
-Babe Ruth
"Democracy is also
a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
- Manitoba J. Woolens
"If there is any
kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it,
as I shall not pass this way
again."
-William Penn
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth
going".
-Beverly Sills
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines
what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it".
-Lee Holz
"Worrying
about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may
never borrow".
-
Anonymous
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-Confucius
"It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body"
- Kahlil Gibran
"The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations"
- Celia Green
"The mind can also be an erogenous zone"
- Raquel Welch
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence is the
quality that most often makes for success"
- Dale Carnegie
"The burden is equal to the horse's strength"
- The Talmud
"The first and greatest commandment is, "Don't let them scare you"
- Elmer Davis
"It is better to ask some of the questions than know all the answers"
- James Thurber
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
- Anonymous
"When it is not necessary to make a decision,
it is necessary not to make a
decision"
- Lord Falkland
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgives revenge,
and dares forgive an injury"
- E.H. Chapin
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there"
- Will Rogers
"As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time"
- John Mason
"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful"
- Paul Sweeney
"Bureaucracy is nothing more than the hardening of an organization's
arteries"
- William Anthony
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training"
- Anna Freud
"To remain young one must change"
- Alexander Chase
I
love inspirational quotes.
Like
many of you, I collect them. So feel free to send your favorites and I may post them.
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