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Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 28, 2010
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine, 1782-1857
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. - Anne Tyler, 1941-present
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. - Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. - Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. - Ben Stein, 1944-present
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. - Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 14, 2010
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. - Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you. - W. Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, December 7, 2010
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., 1900-1965
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn, 1882-1961
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart, 1929-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Our envy of others devours us most of all. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-present
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. - Ninon de Lenclos, 1620-1705
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. - Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 23, 2010
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt, 1897-1989
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. - Katharine Butler Hathaway, 1890-1942
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz, 1829-1906
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. - Robert Browning, 1812-1889
Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Honor does not have to be defended. - Robert J. Sawyer, 1960-present
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith, 1730-1774
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. - Lewis Mumford, 1895-1990
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. - Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679
他说没有谦虚will find it difficult to make his words good. - Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole, 1717-1797
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Health is worth more than learning. - Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. - Bob Dylan, 1941-present
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. - Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide, 1869-1951
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. - Publilius Syrus, ~100 BC
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. - Cato the Elder, 234 BC-149 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins, 1915-1990
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt, 1778-1830
我们确保我们的朋友而不是接受礼品by doing them. - Thucydides, 471 BC-400 BC
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. - John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1801-1890
A minute's success pays the failure of years. - Robert Browning, 1812-1889
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. - Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 21, 2010
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. - Hesiod, ~800 BC
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. - Aristotle, 384 BC-322 BC
Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. - Antisthenes, 445 BC-365 BC
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. - Oprah Winfrey, 1954-present
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. - Thomas Sowell, 1930-present
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, September 8, 2010
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. - Madeleine L'Engle, 1918-present
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse, 1869-1954
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas H. Huxley, 1825-1895
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. - Robert J. Sawyer, 1960-present
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Seneca, 5 BC-65 AD
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. - Abigail Van Buren, 1918-present
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Rodin, 1840-1917
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. - Henry L. Stimson, 1867-1950
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading. - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, 160 AD-230 AD
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton, 1915-1968
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith, 1771-1845
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. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 27, 2010
我开始相信,每个人都有一个人物l calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. - Oprah Winfrey, 1954-present
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley, 1890-1957
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 20, 2010
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin, 1903-1977
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. - James F. Byrnes, 1879-1972
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. - William Cowper, 1731-1800
Inspirational Quotes for Tuesday, July 13, 2010
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive. - Dr. Joyce Brothers, 1928-present
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford, 1863-1947
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
Inspirational Quotes for Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. - Sydney Smith, 1771-1845
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. - James Thurber, 1894-1961