Weekend Pick Me Ups: Inspirational Quotes
You can never cross the Ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
To live a creative life we mut lose our fear of being wrong – Joseph Chilton Pearce
You are somebody’s reason to smile.
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Quotes of the Day
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. – Unknown
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. – Benjamin Disraeli
People are very open-minded about new things — as long as they’re exactly like the old ones. – Charles Kettering
The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. – Unknown
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. – Confucius
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. – Linus Torvalds
Life Provoking Questions
If you could live the next 24 hours and then erase it and start over just once, what would you do?
Have the courage to answer?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Best Funny Quotes
I’ve prepared for you a great list with best funny quotes of all time. Of course, the list could be larger, but you can help me to expand it.
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons
Eleanor Roosevelt Inspirational Quotes
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly,
and without fear, for newer and richer experiences. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Never allow a person to tell you No who doesn’t have the power to say Yes. – Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
What Famous People Have to Say about Love
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.” – Bette Davis
“The best thing about me is you.” – Shannon Crown
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.” – St. Augustine
“All you need is love.” – John Lennon & Paul McCartney
“Love never claims, it ever gives.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” – Charles Dickens
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Mark Twain
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – John Lennon and Paul McCartney
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.” – Lord Byron
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost
“I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.” – Françoise Sagan
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” – Thomas Fuller
“Who, being loved, is poor?”- Oscar Wilde
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” – Emanuel Swedenborg
“A heart that loves is always young.” – Greek Proverb
Beauty Quotes
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” – Sara Teasdale
“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” – Adlai E. Stevenson
“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they’re actually beautiful.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.” – Don Williams, Jr
“I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.” – Sarah McLachlan
“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” – Kinky Friedman
“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo’d She is a woman, therefore to be won” – William Shakespeare
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” – Dorothy Parker
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love” – Rabindranath Tagore
Failure Quotes and Sayings
If we will learn what failure is, we will know what courage and success are. Now let’s read some wonderful failure quotes.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you’re accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~Thomas Edison
There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” ~S.I. Hayakawa
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage. ~George Horace Lorimer
You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor
There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen
Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946
You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney
Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones
What’s your favorite? :D
Inspiring Quotes
I’ve selected for you 10 Inspiring Quotes for a better day. Enjoy!
“Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.” – Polly Berends
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
“Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John Mitchell
“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” – Julia Alvarez
“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Booth Luce
“If you see a difference between where you are and where you want to be – consciously change your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.” – Neal Donald Walsch
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson
What’s your favorite?