Inspirational Quotes
I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I do.
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams - Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of our best people.
George Ade - The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their
inner beliefs.
James Allen - The efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the
right job done.
Anonymous - The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Antoninus - Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold - Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley - Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
Ken Blanchard - The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of
knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin - By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
Thomas Browne - Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan - In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invicible summer.
Albert Camus - No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather - When we see men of contradictory character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius - To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius - We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey - Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Roger Crawford - You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne Dyer - Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison - Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein - We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides - Whoever is happy will make others happy.
Anne Frank - The last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl - Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Erich Fromm - The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost - Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost - One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of
the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide - Whatever you can do, or dream you can do,
begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe - 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 - No man can ever rise above that which he aims.
A. A. Hedge - Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.
Tehyi Hsieh - To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard - Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H.L.Hunt - Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong - Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce - One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller - There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than
the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy - Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Basil King - It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Somerset Maugham - Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.
Peter McWilliams - The measure of a man is not the number of his servants but in the number of people whom he serves.
Dr. Paul D. Moody - If we imagine ourselves as being every bit as huge, deep, mysterious, and
awe-inspiring as the night sky, we might begin to appreciate how complicated
we are as individuals and how much of who we are is unknown not only to others
but to ourselves.
Thomas Moore - Forgiveness is the economy of the
heart...Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste
of spirits.
Hannah More - If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree.
Osage Saying - In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
Karl Reiland - The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller - What would you attempt to do, if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller - One should count each day a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca - This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night
the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare - You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw - Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner - One word frees us of all the weight and
pain of life; that word is love.
Sophocles - The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
Rod Steiger - All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai E. Stevenson - Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau - A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau - To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace - I have learned that 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 - I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington - Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation,
for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington - To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
