Inspiring Quotes – I

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
~ General George S. Patton, Jr

Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~ W S Somerset Maughm

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
~ Paul Sweeney

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
~ Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
~ Abba Eban

There is something much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
~ Robert Half

Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
~ Anon

The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot.
~ Walter Bagehut

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth.
~ Sir John A. MacDonald

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mingnon McLaughlin

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~ Herman Melville

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- F. P. Jones

Live by what you trust, not by what you fear.
- Anon

I have learnt silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind ; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran

Hard work spotlights the character of people:
some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
- Sam Ewig

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, He would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.
- Ken Blanchard (We Are the Beloved)

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- William James

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
~ J. Petit-Senn, Conceits and Caprices

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
~ Anon  

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

You are what you think about all day long.
~ Anon

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
~ Sir Walter Scott

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
~ Anon

Don’t let time take control of your destiny.
Let your destiny take control of your time.
~ Ulrick Ricardo Milord

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z.
Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein

Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
~ Joann Thomas

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
~ Benjamin Jowett

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
~ Louis L’Amour

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James

Learning history is easy.
Learning its lessons is almost impossible.
~ Anon

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
~ Anon

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~ William Jennings Bryan

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
~ Anon

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
~ Albert Einstein

Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake.
~ Anon

True friends stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde

A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.
~ Anon

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. 
Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
~ H Jackson Browne

Motivation determines what you do…
Attitude determines how well you do it.
~ Anon
 
Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it.
~ Sir Winston Churchill  

Change before you have to.
~ Jack Welsh  
 
It does not matter if you fall down as long as you pick up something from the floor while you get up.
~ Avery’s Observation  

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
~ William Feather
 
Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~ David Lloyd George  

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
~ Teddy Roosevelt  

Victory is what happens when ten thousand hours of hard work meet up with one moment of opportunity.
~ Anon
 
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
~ Anon
 
I wanted to be scared again… I wanted to feel unsure again. 
That’s the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.
~ Connie Chung
 
I am ready to meet my Maker. 
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
~ Winston Churchill
 
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
~ Anon
 
No brilliance is required in law, just common sense and relatively clean fingernails.
~ John Mortimer
 
A lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
~ Patrick Murray
 
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~ Robert Frost
 
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
~ David Russell
 
Problems are opportunities in work clothes.
~ Henry Kaiser
 
Defeat is not the worst of failures. 
Not to have tried is the true failure.
~ George E. Woodberry  
 
Challenges are what make life interesting ; 
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
~ Joshua J. Marine
 
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
~ Anon  

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
~ Bill Cosby  

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
~ Aldous Huxley  

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
~ Anon  
 
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
~ Thomas Watson  

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~ Napoleon  

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~ Alfred Adler  

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~ Derek Bok  

If you ever need a helping hand, there is one at the end of your arm.
~Anon

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

God is not dead. He is alive but working on a less ambitious project.
~ Anonymous

If you give 100%, God will make up the difference !
~ Anon

Related Reading:
» Inspiring Quotes – II
» Inspiring Quotes – III
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» 5 Inspirations – II
» 5 Inspirations – III