inspirational sayings & inspiring quotes

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

2008-11-17T08:34:00.001-08:00

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
~Author : Unknown Motivational Sayings

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
~Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Famous Quotes

Stacy Happy anniversary, Wayne. Wayne Stacy, we broke up two months ago. Stacy Well, that doesn't mean we can't still go out, does it Wayne Well, it does actually, that's what breaking up is.
~Author : Wayne's World Inspirational Sayings

I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Nice Quotes

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
~Author : Thomas Fuller Great Sayings

Said Waldershare, 'Sensible men are all of the same religion.' 'And pray what is that' ... 'Sensible men never tell.'
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Meaningful Sayings

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Wise Quotes

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance

2008-11-17T08:33:00.001-08:00

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
~Author : Richard M Nixon Nice Quotes

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
~Author : W S Gilbert Great Sayings

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
~Author : Barber B Conable Jr Meaningful Sayings

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.
~Author : Alexander Osborn Wise Quotes

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.
~Author : John Ruskin Motivational Sayings

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
~Author : Senator Everett Dirksen Famous Quotes

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
~Author : Alexander Clark Inspirational Sayings

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices

2008-11-17T08:32:00.000-08:00

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
~Author : Dodie Smith Famous Quotes

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Inspirational Sayings

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
~Author : Alice Walker Nice Quotes

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
~Author : Agnes de Mille Great Sayings

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
~Author : Gerald Jampolsky Meaningful Sayings

The end excuses any evil.
~Author : Sophocles Wise Quotes

Thomas Szasz Meaningful Sayings

2008-10-19T02:57:00.003-07:00

The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
~Author : Thomas Szasz Meaningful Sayings

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Wise Quotes

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
~Author : Karen Elizabeth Gordon Motivational Sayings

I didn't really say everything I said.
~Author : Yogi Berra Famous Quotes

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
~Author : Jean Baptiste Montegut Inspirational Sayings

You can always tell youre in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.
~Author : Hugh Elliott Nice Quotes

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
~Author : Benjamin Franklin Great Sayings

Oprah Winfrey Nice Quotes

2008-10-19T02:57:00.001-07:00

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
~Author : Oprah Winfrey Nice Quotes

Blood may be thicker than water, but love is thicker than anything.
~Author : Goldie Nash Great Sayings

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
~Author : Charles Bukowski Meaningful Sayings

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.
~Author : Nathan Hale Wise Quotes

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
~Author : Wilma Askinas Motivational Sayings

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
~Author : Mahatma Gandhi Famous Quotes

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.
~Author : Franklin P Jones Nice Quotes

Henry David Thoreau Famous Quotes

2008-10-19T02:56:00.000-07:00

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Famous Quotes

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.
~Author : Robert Anson Heinlein Inspirational Sayings

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
~Author : Michael Masser Nice Quotes

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
~Author : Seneca Great Sayings

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
~Author : Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Meaningful Sayings

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
~Author : Peter Farquharson Wise Quotes

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Motivational Sayings

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
~Author : Kenneth A Wells Famous Quotes

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things

2008-10-08T08:07:00.005-07:00

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
~Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Inspirational Sayings

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
~Author : Zig Ziglar Nice Quotes

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
~Author : Aristotle Great Sayings

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
~Author : Indira Gandhi Meaningful Sayings

What a time! What a civilization!
~Author : Cicero Wise Quotes

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
~Author : Aldous Huxley Motivational Sayings

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
~Author : William Shakespeare Famous Quotes

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
~Author : William Feather Inspirational Sayings

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course,

2008-10-08T08:07:00.003-07:00

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~Author : Walter Bagehot Famous Quotes

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~Author : Jerome K Jerome Inspirational Sayings

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
~Author : W H Auden Nice Quotes

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can?t see from the centre.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Jr Great Sayings

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Meaningful Sayings

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
~Author : Carl Sandburg Wise Quotes

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.
~Author : Steve Martini Motivational Sayings

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious,

2008-10-08T08:07:00.001-07:00

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Jr Famous Quotes

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
~Author : Stephen King Inspirational Sayings

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
~Author : Richard Bach Nice Quotes

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible.
~Author : Herbert Welch Great Sayings

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
~Author : Norman Ford Meaningful Sayings

The character of a man is known from his conversations.
~Author : Menander Wise Quotes

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

2008-10-02T06:41:00.001-07:00

Trinity The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.
~Author : Matrix The Nice Quotes

I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot.
~Author : Jack Handey Deep Thoughts Great Sayings

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
~Author : Shneur Zalman Meaningful Sayings

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Wise Quotes

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
~Author : Andy Rooney Motivational Sayings

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.
~Author : Clay Aiken Famous Quotes

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
~Author : Baltasar Gracian Inspirational Sayings

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.

2008-10-02T06:40:00.002-07:00

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
~Author : Henri Frdric Amiel Famous Quotes

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.
~Author : Honduran Proverb Inspirational Sayings

Even the best of friends need time apart.
~Author : Mark Heath Spot the Frog 090905 Nice Quotes

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
~Author : George Wald Great Sayings

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
~Author : John le Carre The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy in The New York Times May 8 1974 Meaningful Sayings

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
~Author : Friedrich Nietzsche Wise Quotes

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.
~Author : German proverb Motivational Sayings

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same

2008-10-02T06:40:00.001-07:00

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
~Author : H Jackson Brown Jr Famous Quotes

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
~Author : Helen Keller Inspirational Sayings

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
~Author : From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 Attributed to Gaius Petronus a Roman General who later committed suicide Nice Quotes

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
~Author : Stephen Leacock Great Sayings

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
~Author : Vince Lombardi Meaningful Sayings

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
~Author : Gerald W Johnson Wise Quotes

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
~Author : Johann Kepler Motivational Sayings

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

2008-09-30T08:25:00.006-07:00

Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
~Author : Emily Dickinson Meaningful Sayings

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
~Author : Thomas Szasz The Second Sin 1973 Childhood Wise Quotes

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
~Author : Dorothy C Fisher quoted in O Magazine May 2003 Motivational Sayings

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.
~Author : Jerry Coleman Famous Quotes

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~Author : Ronald Reagan Address to the Nation Jan 16 1984 Inspirational Sayings

Character develops itself in the stream of life.
~Author : Johann von Goethe Nice Quotes

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
~Author : Aristotle Great Sayings

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
~Author : Sir Philip Sidney Meaningful Sayings

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.
~Author : Jim Dietz Wise Quotes

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
~Author : William Shakespeare Measure for Measure Act 2 scene 2 Motivational Sayings

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Famous Quotes

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
~Author : Elliot Wayne Eisner Inspirational Sayings

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
~Author : Douglas Adams Nice Quotes

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

2008-09-30T08:25:00.005-07:00

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
~Author : Albert Einstein Famous Quotes

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
~Author : Victor Hugo Inspirational Sayings

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are friends in spots.
~Author : George Santayana Nice Quotes

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
~Author : Abraham Lincoln Great Sayings

Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
~Author : Samuel Johnson Meaningful Sayings

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
~Author : Niccolo Machiavelli Wise Quotes

If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.
~Author : Rev Ivan Stang High Weirdness By Mail Motivational Sayings

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~Author : George Ellis Famous Quotes

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
~Author : Peter S Prescott Inspirational Sayings

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian.
~Author : Mark Twain Nice Quotes

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
~Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton Great Sayings

Let the punishment match the offense.

2008-09-30T08:25:00.003-07:00

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~Author : John F Kennedy Great Sayings

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a
~Author : Samuel Johnson Meaningful Sayings

Let the punishment match the offense.
~Author : Cicero De Legibus Wise Quotes

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
~Author : G Gaia Motivational Sayings

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
~Author : Madame Chiang Famous Quotes

When her last child is off to school, we don't want the talented woman wasting her time in work far below her capacity. We want her to come out running.
~Author : Mary Ingraham Bunting Inspirational Sayings

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

2008-09-30T08:25:00.001-07:00

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
~Author : Aristotle Inspirational Sayings

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
~Author : Dick Gregory Nice Quotes

Few great men could pass Personnel.
~Author : Paul Goodman Great Sayings

I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
~Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Meaningful Sayings

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are
~Author : Martin Luther Wise Quotes

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
~Author : William Shakespeare Sonnet cxvi Motivational Sayings

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
~Author : Samuel Palmer Famous Quotes

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

2008-09-30T08:24:00.001-07:00

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
~Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Famous Quotes

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
~Author : Elsa Barker Inspirational Sayings

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
~Author : Dax Ward Nice Quotes

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
~Author : Carl Jung Great Sayings

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Meaningful Sayings

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
~Author : Logan Pearsall Smith Wise Quotes

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
~Author : Quentin Crisp Motivational Sayings

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
~Author : Charlie Chaplin in My Autobiography 1964 Famous Quotes