Inspiring Quotes – II
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
~ Doug Larson
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Water, Air and Cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
To get rich never risk your health.
For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
~ Richard Baker
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Some people entertain ideas, others put them to work.
~ Anon
You may have to fight the battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Ill-health of body or of mind is defeat.
Health alone is victory.
Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy !
~ Thomas Carlyle
The ingredients of health and long life are great temperance, open air, easy labor and little care.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The dictionary is the only place where ’success’ comes before ‘work’.
~ Vidal Sasoon
My best friend is the one who brings the best in me.
~ Henry Ford
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Cheerfulness is the principal ingredient in the composition of health.
~ Arthur Murphy
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Confucius
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Whatever you are, be a good one.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Don’t be discouraged, often it is the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
~ Anon
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
~ Aristotle
Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
~ Confucius
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
~ Cavett Robert
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
~ Italian Proverb
He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
~ Joan Welsh
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
~ Mark Twain
I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and
attended to with diligence.
~ Abigail Adams
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible.
Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser.
Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
~ Brendan Francis
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
~ Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once.
I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work.
When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
~ Thomas Edison
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
~ Immanuel Kant
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
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.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
~ Oscar Wilde
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
~ George Santayana
I don’t have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.
~ Anon
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
~ Antisthenes
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
~ Richard Bach
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
~ Albert Einstein
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
~ Thoreau
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
~ Chinese proverb
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation, by what you fall for.
~ Robert Quillen
Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
~ Albert Camus
Confrontation doesn’t always bring a solution to the problem, but until you confront the problem, there will be no solution.
~ James Baldwin
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
~ Epictetus
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~ Hannah More
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
~ Goethe
All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney
It is not that we don’t know the right answers, it is just that we don’t ask the right questions.
~ Tony Robbins
People who are often in a hurry imagine they are energetic, when in most cases they are simply inefficient.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
~ Anon
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer {1788-1860, German Philosopher}
Posthumous Charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequethed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
~ Colton
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of it’s strength.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~ Gandhi
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
~ J. Krishnamurti
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain
Success hinges on a passion for excellence.
~ John F. Kennedy
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
~ Ben Sweetland
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
~ Henry Kissinger
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying.
It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
~ Dale Carnegie
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
~ Robert Schuller
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
~ Josh BIllings
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~ Mother Teresa
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.
~ Josh Billings
Yesterday is a cancelled cheque : Forget it.
Tomorrow is a promissory note : Don’t count on it.
Today is ready cash : Use it !
~ Edwin C. Bliss
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The time for action is now.
It’s never too late to do something.
~ Carl Sandburg
Treasure the love you receive above all.
It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
~ Og Mandino
Character is not ready made,
but is created bit by bit and day by day.
~ Anon
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Related Reading:
» Inspiring Quotes – I
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