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20 Great Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 18, 2011April 14, 2011 by

1. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

2. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot

5. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

7. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

8. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

10. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot

11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown

14. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

15. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

27. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

18. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch

19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White

20. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Honesty Quotes

Posted on December 19, 2010 by

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O’Malley

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert

With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams

Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

Top 20 Inspirational Quotes

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

1. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

2. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – Unknown

5. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Unknown

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

7. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

8. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

10. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” –Albert Einstein

12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” –Milton Berle

13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown

15. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

17. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch

18. “To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.” – Unknown

19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Unknown

20. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs