Tag: John W. Gardner

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

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

Wise Quotes about Life

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. – Albert Einstein

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

A hopeless person feels difficulty in every chance but, a hopeful person feels a chance in every difficulty. – Unknown

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. – Pope John XXIII

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

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? – Coleman Cox

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. – Unknown

A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. – Chinese proverb

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. – Unknown

Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door. – Unknown