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25 of the Most Inspirational Quotes

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ~Ralph Marston

2. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ~John F. Kennedy

3. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau

4. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ~Carl Sandburg

5. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

6. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~Thomas Jefferson

7. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

8. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

9. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ~Charles De Gaulle

10. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. ~John W. Gardner

11. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ~Orison Swett Marden

12. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ~Henry David Thoreau

13. Wherever you are – be all there. ~Jim Elliot

14. Who seeks shall find. ~Sophocles

15. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

16. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C. S. Lewis

17. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. ~Ted Turner

18. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford

19. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. ~Flip Wilson

20. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

21. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ~George S. Patton

22. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. ~Anonymous

23. Excellence is to do a common thing, in an uncommon way. ~Booker T. Washington

24. Do not let what you can not do, interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden

25. One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Famous People Quotes #8

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.” – Martin Fraquhar Tupper

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.” – Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” – Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” – Goethe (1749-1832)

“In the end, everything is a gag.” – Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

“The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.” – Lucille S. Harper

“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra

“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney (1901-1966)

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.” – Mae West (1892-1980)

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Godwin

“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” – Henry Kissinger (1923-)

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” – Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

“You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.” – Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” – Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.” – Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

“I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” – General George Patton (1885-1945)

“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.” – Katherine Cebrian

“I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it.” – Steven Wright

“Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” – Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.” – Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

“I have read your book and much like it.” – Moses Hadas (1900-1966)

“The covers of this book are too far apart.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.” – Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” – Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)

“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.” – Mae West (1892-1980)

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

“No Sane man will dance.” – Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.” – Robert Frost (1874-1963)

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” – Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

“Vote early and vote often.” – Al Capone (1899-1947)

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“Hell is other people.” – Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” – Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world’s first nuclear explosion)

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” – Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

“Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.” – Thomas Jones

“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” – Al Capone (1899-1947)

“The gods too are fond of a joke.” – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.” – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.” – Gloria Leonard

Politics Quotes

Posted on October 13, 2010October 9, 2010 by

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” – Charles De Gaulle

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.” – Eugene McCarthy

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” – Winston Churchill

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” – John Adams

“Politics have no relation to morals.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan