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Blame Motivational and Inspirational Quotes
Blame is a lazy man’s wages. – Danish Proverb
A man may fall many times but he won’t be a failure until he says someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman
Fix the problem, not the blame. – Catherine Pulsifer
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope
Don’t make excuses… make good. – Elbert Hubbard
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. – Unknown Author
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. – Plutarch
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. – Wayne Dyer
I praise loudly, I blame softly. – Catherine II of Russia
Richard Carlson Quotes
Circumstances don’t make a person; they reveal him or her.
It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart… it comes from being alive.
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness… an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
Les Brown Quotes
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. –Les Brown Quotes
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. –Les Brown Quotes
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. –Les Brown Quotes
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. –Les Brown Quotes
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. –Les Brown Quotes
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. –Les Brown Quotes
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. –Les Brown Quotes
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. –Les Brown Quotes
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. –Les Brown Quotes
There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. –Les Brown Quotes
Top 20 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
When it comes to quotes, Mahatma Gandhi is one of my favorites. Let me share with you Top 20 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes.
1. “Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong” – Mahatma Gandhi
2. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
3. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
4. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” – Mahatma Gandhi
5. “The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles” – Mahatma Gandhi
6. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
7. “Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it” – Mahatma Gandhi
8. “You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result” –Mahatma Gandhi
9. “The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children” – Mahatma Gandhi
10. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
11. “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” – Mahatma Gandhi
12. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” – Mahatma Gandhi
13. “As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.” –Mahatma Gandhi
14. “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” – Mahatma Gandhi
15. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” – Mahatma Gandhi
17. “A ‘NO’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘YES’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.” – Mahatma Gandhi
18. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
19. “Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.” – Mahatma Gandhi
20. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Famous Change Quotes
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The only thing constant in life is change.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” – Jacob M. Braude
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” – Confucius
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” – Denis Waitley
Life Quotes
Let me show you a great list of life quotes from famous people.
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. – Lillian Dickson
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver
We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. – Omar Nelson Bradley
Life is short; Live it up. – Nikita Khrushchev
Let us endeavor to live, so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain
You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough. – Joe E. Lewis
Tomorrow life is too late; live today. – Martial
Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. – David Guy Powers
Life is an adventure, dare it. – Mother Theresa
Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away. – Unknown
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. – Joan Baez
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. – Shirley MacLaine
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. – Charles Schulz
Live today for tomorrow it will all be history. – Proverbs
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. – Wendy Wasserstein
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. – Cary Grant
Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. – Harold Ruopp
Mark Twain Quotes #5
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.