Inspirational Quotes

J. Arthur Thomson

2009-09-07T16:20:00.000+05:30

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

Albert Einstein

2008-11-26T21:29:00.000+05:30

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

Seneca

2008-10-29T18:04:00.000+05:30

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Jane Goodall

2008-10-21T18:28:00.000+05:30

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."

Doris Lessing

2008-10-06T18:55:00.001+05:30

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

Leon J. Suenes

2008-09-30T20:07:00.000+05:30

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

George Eliot

2008-09-26T21:11:00.001+05:30

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

John Ruskin

2008-09-18T18:41:00.002+05:30

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

Muriel Strode

2008-09-18T18:41:00.000+05:30

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Cullen Hightower

2008-09-01T21:13:00.000+05:30

"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2008-08-28T22:22:00.000+05:30

"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else."

Pericles

2008-08-25T22:00:00.001+05:30

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it."

Albert Einstein

2008-08-22T18:52:00.001+05:30

"Truth is what stands the test of experience."

Eric Hoffer

2008-08-11T20:38:00.001+05:30

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2008-08-07T18:33:00.001+05:30

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

Epicurus

2008-08-05T16:48:00.000+05:30

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

Nicole Kidman

2008-08-04T22:01:00.000+05:30

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."

Luisa Sigea

2008-07-07T16:14:00.001+05:30

"Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished."

Jane Austen

2008-06-24T18:54:00.000+05:30

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

Tom Peters

2008-06-24T18:51:00.001+05:30

"Underpromise; overdeliver."

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

2008-06-16T12:38:00.001+05:30

"Truth has beauty, power and necessity."

Paul Tillich

2008-06-16T12:34:00.000+05:30

"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."

Jay Leno

2008-06-05T13:34:00.001+05:30

"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder."

Bonnie Prudden

2008-06-05T13:33:00.001+05:30

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

Soren Kierkegaard

2008-06-05T13:31:00.000+05:30

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Joseph Murphy

2008-06-05T13:30:00.000+05:30

"We go where our vision is."

Frank Tyger

2008-06-05T13:29:00.000+05:30

"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it."

George Carlin

2008-06-05T13:27:00.000+05:30

"It's never just a game when you're winning."

Danny Kaye

2008-06-05T13:25:00.000+05:30

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."

Elbert Hubbard

2008-06-03T19:27:00.001+05:30

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

A. Sachs

2008-06-03T19:25:00.000+05:30

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

George Bernard Shaw

2008-06-03T19:21:00.000+05:30

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Paul Gauguin

2008-06-03T19:18:00.001+05:30

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

John Kord Lagemann

2008-06-03T19:12:00.000+05:30

"Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason."

Immanuel Kant

2008-05-26T20:18:00.001+05:30

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

H. L. Mencken

2008-05-26T20:17:00.000+05:30

"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Alfred North Whitehead

2008-05-20T19:44:00.001+05:30

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

Pearl Buck

2008-05-20T19:43:00.002+05:30

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

Anwar el-Sadat

2008-05-20T19:43:00.001+05:30

"I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me."

Jesse Owens

2008-05-20T19:42:00.002+05:30

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort"

Joseph Addison

2008-05-20T19:42:00.001+05:30

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."

Plato

2008-05-20T19:41:00.000+05:30

"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

Buck Rodgers

2008-05-16T15:49:00.002+05:30

"There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity."

Andy Rooney

2008-05-16T15:49:00.001+05:30

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head."

Cicero

2008-05-16T15:48:00.002+05:30

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

William E. Gladstone

2008-05-16T15:48:00.001+05:30

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

William Ellery Channing

2008-05-16T15:47:00.002+05:30

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Corporate Proverb

2008-05-16T15:47:00.001+05:30

"What gets measured gets improved."

Katherine Mansfield

2008-05-16T15:45:00.001+05:30

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Seneca

2008-05-09T17:43:00.001+05:30

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one."

Anatole France

2008-05-09T17:42:00.002+05:30

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

Oprah Winfrey

2008-05-09T17:42:00.001+05:30

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. "

Terence

2008-05-08T19:21:00.001+05:30

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."

Thomas Alva Edison

2008-05-08T19:20:00.002+05:30

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Stewart B. Johnson

2008-05-08T19:20:00.001+05:30

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays, to do our work with more force than ever before."

Ivy Baker Priest

2008-05-07T20:44:00.003+05:30

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

2008-05-07T20:44:00.001+05:30

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

Akhenaton

2008-05-07T20:42:00.000+05:30

"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increases his riches, increases his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble finds it not."

Friedrich Nietzsche

2008-05-06T18:21:00.004+05:30

"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."

Pericles

2008-05-06T18:21:00.003+05:30

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it."

William Arthur Ward

2008-05-06T18:21:00.001+05:30

"Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

English Proverb

2008-05-05T19:50:00.006+05:30

"A full cup must be carried steadily."

Frank A. Clark

2008-05-05T19:50:00.005+05:30

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Lao-tzu

2008-05-05T19:50:00.003+05:30

"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008-05-05T19:50:00.001+05:30

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

Jean-Paul Sartre

2008-05-05T19:49:00.006+05:30

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

Abraham Lincoln

2008-05-05T19:49:00.005+05:30

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Albert Einstein

2008-05-05T19:49:00.003+05:30

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

Hyman Rickover

2008-05-05T19:49:00.001+05:30

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Rex Hudler

2008-05-05T19:48:00.000+05:30

"Be a fountain, not a drain."

Oprah Winfrey

2008-05-02T20:24:00.001+05:30

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008-05-02T20:23:00.005+05:30

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

Robert Frost

2008-05-02T20:23:00.003+05:30

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Robert Louis Stevenson

2008-05-02T20:23:00.001+05:30

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

John Wesley

2008-05-02T20:22:00.003+05:30

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

Aristotle

2008-05-02T20:22:00.001+05:30

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Leo Burnett

2008-04-30T20:41:00.003+05:30

"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."

William E. Gladstone

2008-04-30T20:41:00.001+05:30

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

Zig Ziglar

2008-04-30T20:40:00.001+05:30

"You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."

Elaine Maxwell

2008-04-29T20:21:00.003+05:30

"My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."

Johann Goether

2008-04-29T20:21:00.001+05:30

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

2008-04-29T20:20:00.000+05:30

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

Sir James M. Barrie

2008-04-28T19:48:00.003+05:30

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves"

Kahlil Gibran

2008-04-28T19:48:00.001+05:30

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Irma Kurtz

2008-04-28T19:47:00.000+05:30

"Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do."

Claude M. Bristol

2008-04-27T17:41:00.004+05:30

"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2008-04-27T17:41:00.003+05:30

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

Eric Hoffer

2008-04-27T17:41:00.001+05:30

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Sir Winston Churchill

2008-04-26T22:19:00.002+05:30

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

Martin Luther King Jr.

2008-04-26T22:19:00.001+05:30

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Agnes G Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa)

2008-04-26T22:18:00.000+05:30

"There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those."

John F. Kennedy

2008-04-25T19:47:00.003+05:30

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

Leonardo da Vinci

2008-04-25T19:47:00.001+05:30

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

Euripides

2008-04-25T19:46:00.000+05:30

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:a quiet conscience."

John F. Kennedy

2008-04-24T20:35:00.002+05:30

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

William Blake

2008-04-24T20:35:00.001+05:30

"To see a world in a grain of sand,And a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour."

Aristotle

2008-04-24T20:34:00.002+05:30

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it."

Helen Keller

2008-04-23T18:43:00.004+05:30

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Robin Sharma

2008-04-23T18:43:00.003+05:30

"Thoughts are the Ancestors of Actions."

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

2008-04-23T18:43:00.001+05:30

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."