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20 Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein

2. Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen

3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. —Wilson Mizner

4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. —Daniel J. Boorstin

5. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward

6. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. —Frank Wilczek

7. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. —Eric Hoffer

8. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein

9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert

10. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby

11. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. —Spanish Proverb

12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde

13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. —Harold Stephens

14. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler

15. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand —Chinese Proverb

16. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what
you want most. —Unknown Author

17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. —Wallace Wattles

18. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner

19. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. —Abraham Lincoln

20. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

Quotes about being angry

Posted on May 18, 2012May 18, 2012 by

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Get mad, then get over it.” ~Colin Powell

“If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.” ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997

“You can’t get a pay raise when you’re angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.” – Stuart Wilde

“When Anger arises, think of the consequences.” – Confucius

“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca

“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” – Phyllis Diller

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.” – Mitch Albom

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.” – Aristotle

“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.” – Epictetus

“The best answer to anger is silence.” – Marcus Aurelius

“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.” – Cherie Carter-Scott

“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” – Joan Lunden

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?” – Khalil Gibran

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Proverb

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” – Mark Twain

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” – Alfred A. Montapert

Inspirational Life Quotes and Sayings that make you think

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ~Maria Robinson

If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. ~Win Borden

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. ~Ashley Smith

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore

The most important things in life aren’t things. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. ~Alex Tan

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~Peter Marshall

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. ~John N. Mitchell

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ~Keri Russell

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. ~Byrd Baggett

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~John W. Gardner

Every day of your life is a page of your history. ~Arabic proverb

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~Walter Bagehot

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie

Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. ~Viktor E. Frankl

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. ~John Derek

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives. ~Colin Powell

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose. ~Chinese proverb

Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment – the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. ~Jorge Luis Borges

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It’s inside you – if you listen to it, you can play it. ~Nido Qubein

Kissing Quotes

Posted on November 8, 2011November 8, 2011 by

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases. – Chinese Proverb

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. – Albert Einstein

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. – Janeane Garofalo

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. – Leigh Hunt

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek. – French Proverb

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. – Winston Churchill

I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. – Chico Marx

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. – Jonathan Swift

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer

A kiss may ruin a human life. – Oscar Wilde

Creativity & Life Quotes

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Adam Lyons

Any intelligent fool can make things better, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. – Unknown

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci

The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift. That’s why this moment is called the present. Enjoy it. – Allan Johnson

If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. – African proverb

Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something. – Jim Rohn

The man is the head [of the family], but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants. – My Big Fat Greek Wedding

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. – William Shakespeare

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Anonymous

Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open. – Thomas Dewar

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. – Albert Einstein

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. – Chinese proverb

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. – Plato

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S. Buck

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. – Unknown

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn’t have fallen for the second. – Johnny Depp

In the pursuit of knowledge, something is added every day. In the pursuit of enlightenment, something is dropped every day. – Laozi

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Unknown

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Sarah Williams

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. – Laozi

Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on August 28, 2011 by