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Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. - Pythagoras, circa 570 BC-495 BC
The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for. - Thomas Chalmers, 1780-1847
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. - Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 23, 2013
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface. - Hippolyte Taine, 1828-1893
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George Patton, 1885-1945
To reach a port, we must sail--Sail, not tie at anchor--Sail, not drift. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 16, 2013
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. - Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful. - Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner, 1897-1962
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir, 1838-1914
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1796-1865
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. - Seneca, 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James, 1842-1910
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. - Cornelius Nepos, 100 B.C.-24 B.C.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. - Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition. - William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 19, 2013
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. - Menander, 342 BC - 291 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock, 1858-1901
A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin, 1809-1882
Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make is what the people call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. - Alexander Hamilton, 1755-1804
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, March 5, 2013
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. - Washington Irving, 1783-1859
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement -- these are the martial virtues which must command success. - Austin Phelps, 1820-1890
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William Thackeray, 1811-1863
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. - Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen. - James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 19, 2013
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Steve Jobs, 1955-2001
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon, 1928-2012
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman, 1889-1970
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell, 1847-1922
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? - Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery, 1871-1945
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - John B. Gough, 1817-1886
The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. - Richard Monckton Milnes, 1809-1885
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 29, 2013
There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley, 1890-1957
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. - Plutarch, 46-120 AD
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 22, 2013
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. - Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. - Democritus, 460 BC-370 BC
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. - Josiah Gilbert Holland, 1819-1881
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Oliver Goldsmith, 1730-1774
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. - Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer, 800 BC-701 BC
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. - Charles Bruxton, 1823-1871
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Kind words are the music of the world. - F. W. Faber, 1814-1863
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here. - John G. Whittier, 1807-1892
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster, 1782-1852
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 11, 2012
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. - B. R. Haydon, 1786-1846
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn, 1792–1870
He that is down needs fear no fall. - John Bunyan, 1628-1688
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. - Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson, 1630-1694
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. - Thales, 624 BC-546 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. - Viktor Frankl, 1905-1997
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis, 1906-1975
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. - Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 6, 2012
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. - Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC
When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker, 1554-1600
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leo J. Suenens, 1904-1996