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Famous Motivational Quotes

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

– “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll

– “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” – Jesse Jackson

– “The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo

– “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

– “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

– “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

– “We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.” – Peter F. Drucker

– “Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

– “You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.” – William Boetcker

Wisdom Quotes and Sayings

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Some wonderful wisdom quotes and sayings for a great day :)

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James

“What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.” – The Buddha

“The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

“No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less.” – Edgar Watson Howe

“A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.” – Aaron Levenstein

“Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol

“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius

“No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca

“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson

“If you try you may fail, if you don’t try you’re guaranteed to fail.” – Jesse Jackson

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” – Leo Aikman

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” – Betty Smith

“Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.” – Elbert Hubbard

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” – Chinese Proverb

“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.” – W. Migner

“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” – James Thurber

“Wisdom is found only in truth.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” –Janis Joplin

– “To generous souls every task is noble.” – Euripides
– “Lavishness is not generosity.” – Thomas Fuller
– “Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.” – Jean De La BruyFre
– “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
– “Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.” – Charles Dickens
– “I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.” – George H. W. Bush
– “Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.” – John D. Rockefeller
– “So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.” – Susan Sarandon
– “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.” – Jesse Jackson