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I love inspirational quotes, so I decided to put a few of my favorites on this page.




























Adversity
 
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right?
     - I Peter
 
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. 
     - Albert Einstein

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
     - Eleanor Roosevelt

Anger
 
The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
     - Unknown
 
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
     - Benjamin Franklin

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
     - Laurence J. Peter

Attitude

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
       The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.
       I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes. 
     - Charles Swindoll

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
     - Unknown

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
     - Unknown

Brotherhood

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
       - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
       - Max Lerner

You lift me, and I'll lift you, and we'll ascend together.
       - Unknown

Children

It takes a whole village to raise a child.
       - African Proverb

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
       - David Bly

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. 
       - Mary MacCracken

Depression

Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass.
        - Chuck T. Falcon

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
      - Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
      - Unknown

Democracy

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
       - Elie Wiesel

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
       -Jane Addams

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
       - Unknown

Effort

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.
       - Unknown

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
       - Mohammed

To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but act.
       - Bill Blackman

Environment

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.
       - Unknown

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
       - Unknown

What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?
       - Henry David Thoreau

Ethics

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
       - Ann Landers

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
       - Brigham Young

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.  
       - F.M. Hubbard

Evil

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
       - Max Lerner

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
       - Helen Keller

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
       - Albert Einstein

Friends

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
       - Ethel Watts Mumford (1878–1940), U.S. novelist, humor writer

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
       - Unknown

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
       - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet

Fulfillment - Happiness - Motivation

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
       - Abraham Lincoln

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. 
       - Dick Gregory

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
       - Dale Carnegie

Generosity - Giving

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
       - Unknown

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
       - Ashleigh Brilliant

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
       - Unknown

God

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
       - Matthew 7:7-8 (see also verses 9 -12)

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
       - Mark,11:22-24

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
       -Stephen Covey




































Independence
 
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
       - Lao Tzu
 
Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to wish for but to attain.
       - William Jennings Bryan
 
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
       - Aldous Huxley
 
Justice
 
It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
       - Oscar Aria
 
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
       - Elie Wiesel
 
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
       - Earl Warren
 
Kindness
 
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
       - Leo Buscaglia
 
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy.
       - Randolph Ray
 
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
       - Jean Jacques Rousseau
 
Leadership
 
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
       - Robert F. Kennedy
 
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
       - Unknown
 
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
       - Karl G. Maeser
 
Love
 
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
       - Carl Jung
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
       - David Viscott
 
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
       - Alan Watts
 
Materialism
 
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
       - Unknown
 
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts] to much more.
       - Seneca
 
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
       - Anwar El-Sadat
 
Perfectionism
 
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
       - Robert Schuller
 
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
       - Henry Van Dyke
 
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
       - Dr. David M. Burns
 
Procrastination
 
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
       - Unknown
 
I'm going to stop procrastinating ... once I get around to it.
       - Unknown (nor surprisingly)
 
Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
       - Unknown
 
Quarrels
 
Quarrels wouldn't last as long, if the fault was only on one side.
       - La Rochefoucauld
 
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
       - Madame Necker
 
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
       - Andre Gide
 
Self-Control
 
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
       - Jim Rohn
 
No man is free who is not master of himself.
       - Epictetus (Greek philospher, c. 100 C.E.)
 
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
       - Unknown
 
Self-Examination
 
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
       - Louis L. Mann
 
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
       - William George Jordan
 
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
       - David O. McKay
 
Shyness
 
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
       - Tennyson
 
Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.
       - Kirkpatrick Sale
 
When you're worried, tell yourself the truth: Shyness is a strength to build on, not a character flaw to be stamped out.
       - ``Shyness Is Not A Character Flaw" at the Malvern
School
 
Superstition
 
Superstition is born of ignorance and fear, and thrives the most when reason is asleep 
       - Zarathushtra
 
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
       - Bill Blackman
 
Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad.
       - Fielding
 
Vision
 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
       - Buckminster Fuller
 
Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?"      
  - George Bernard Shaw
 
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
       - Unknown
 
Wisdom
 
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
       - Unknown
 
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
       - Unknown
 
Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom.
Esteem her and she will exalt your; embrace her and she will honor you.
       - Proverbs 4:7-8