Motivational Quotes and Virtues04 Aug 2009 09:23 pm

Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school:
“United we stand; divided we fall”
~ Aesop

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking
~Mahatma Gandhi

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
~ Don Williams

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
~ Bible

We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
~Benjamin Franklin

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
~Woodrow T. Wilson

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
~Sai Baba

Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy
~John Trapp

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn’d Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
~John Milton

Inspirational Unity Saying by Gautama Buddha
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
~ Buddha

We are all in this together, by ourselves.
~Lily Tomlin

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
~Edmund Burke

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
~Gottfried Leibniz

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
~ Charles Mackay

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
~Yiddish Proverb

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
~ Mary Parker Follett

As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
~Karl Jaspers

I still believe America’s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.
~ Senator John Kerry

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
~Anne Baxter

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
~Blaise Pascal

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
~Sallust

Inspirational Quotes18 Jul 2009 05:44 am

OK, here are some advice quotes and here is the best quite on advice to start with:

The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice.
~Author Unknown

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
~Old Proverb

Give advice to your children while they’re young enough to believe you know what you’re talking about.
~Unknown

Here is a funny one though:
Never answer an anonymous letter
~Yogi Berra

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
~Henri Matisse

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
~Gore Vidal

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal
~ Oscar Wilde

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
~G. K. Chesterton

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
~William Somerset Maugham

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~Aeschylus

Advice is least heeded when most needed
~English Proverb

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~Lillian Hellman

Funny Quotes17 Jul 2009 06:33 pm

Some Funny Quotes on advertising to cheer you up. We can’t be too serious all the time. You could find some Inspirational message as well though

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.
~Author Unknown

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
~Raymond Chandler

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
~George Orwell

If we never got a letter of complaint, we’re being way too conservative.
~ Scott Gilbert

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
~Lord Northcliffe

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.
~David Ogilvy

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
~ John Lahr

Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
~Michael Schudson

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
~Norman Douglas

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
~Stephen Leacoc

Art for art’s sake makes no more sense than gin for gin’s sake.
~William Somerset Maugham

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
~Albert Einstein

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
Leo Burnett

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
~Leo Burnett

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
~Mason Cooley

Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’
~Jef I. Richards

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

General Topics and Inspirational Quotes15 Jul 2009 06:39 pm

Inspirational Quotes on Admiration.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

This is a very wise saying on Admiration
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~Francis H. Bradley

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
~Benjamin Franklin

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Jean Rostand

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed.”
~John Milton

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
~ Thomas Creech

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
~Denis Diderot

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
~Joseph Addison

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is an Admiration quote I like the most:
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
~Minna Thomas Antrim

Happiness and Inspirational Quotes14 Jul 2009 06:29 pm

Some Quotations on Peace, because on can only be truly happy or truly inspired to do something if there is peace..

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is always beautiful.
~ Walt Whitman

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Theresa

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
~Anonymous

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~Isaac Asimov

War would end if the dead could return.
~Stanley Baldwin

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
~Leonard Bernstein

It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
~Edmund Burke

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~Denis Diderot

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~George Bernard Shaw

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
~Goethe

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict — alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~Dorothy Thompson

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
~Thomas a Kempis

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
~Thomas Merton

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~Mother Jones

Motivational Quotes and Success Quotes30 Jun 2009 08:58 am

Here are some Sincerity Quotes to inspire you.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
~George Orwell

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~Oscar Wilde

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
~Thomas Fuller

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
~George Bernard Shaw

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
~Confucius

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
~George Henry Lewes

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
~Mencius

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.
~Jean Giraudoux

Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
~Thomas Carlyle

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
~Paramhansa Yogananda

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
~T Shirt Quotes

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
~Xun Zi

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
~Edmond Rostand

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
~Buddha

Inspirational Quotes and Success Quotes24 Jun 2009 06:08 pm

Self help is the best help, and if you cannot help yourself, you cannot expect others to help you. It is only you who can make you successful, though a bit of luck always help, but luck should be a bonus and you should first help yourself achieve what you yearn for,

Here are some self help quotes to inspire you.

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
~Carol Burnett

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.”
~Jawaharlal Nehru

“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
~Cyril Connolly

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
~Ernest Hemingway

“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.”
~ Brian Tracy

“Success is something you attract by the person you become. ”
~ Jim Rohn

“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.”
~Calvin Coolidge.. So control what you say to help yourself from the troubles that arises out of putting your foot in the mouth.

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
~ Harvey MacKay

“A mind that has been stretched will never return to it’s original dimension.”
~Albert Einstein

“The only cure for grief is action.”
~George Henry Lewis

AND REMEMBER NEVER TO GIVE UP
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
~Babe Ruth

Motivational Quotes and Virtues23 Jun 2009 05:57 pm

John Milton said once,
“Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.”

Various temptations have tempted men since beginning and Men and Women have found it hard to resist it since the beginning. Here are some temptation quotes that should Inspire you to resist some temptations that needs to be resisted.

Don’t follow advice like this:
“It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ”
~Mick Jagger Because it is hard getting yourself back, you see.

“Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses. ”
~Franklin P. Jones

An Abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ~Ambrose Bierce

“Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earlier.”
~ Dan Bennett

“God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.”
~Walter Annenberg

“I can resist everything except temptation.”
~Oscar Wilde

” Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.”
~Alyce Robertson

“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation. ”
~Tom Wilson

“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
~Pietro Aretino

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. ”
~Benjamin Franklin

“The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.”
~Matthew Simpson

“You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. ”
~Larry Flynt

Motivational Quotes and Motivational Speakers and Success Quotes20 Jun 2009 03:04 am

Some Inspirational learning quotes because learning is the only, yes, only true cause of the uncommon deasease called success.
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
~Oscar Wilde

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
~Malcolm Gladwell,

“His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.”
~H.G. Wells

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
~C.S. Lewis

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
~Abigail Adams

“Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.”
~ Confucius

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
~Thomas Calyle,

“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
~Dr. Haim Ginott

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”
~ Mortimer Adler

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
~Eartha Kitt

“Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.”
~Carl Jung

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
~Jack Welch

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. ”
~Louisa May Alcott

“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain” ”
~Aristotle

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
~ Mark Twain

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.”
~ Ray LeBlond

“I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.”
~Chinese Proverbs

“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ”
~Novali German poet

“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Douglas Adams

“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.”
~ Galileo Galilei

“Learning is the art of ignoring. ”
~Elias Canetti

Motivational Speakers and Wisdom19 Jun 2009 03:49 am

These here are some quotes on trusts..

“Our distrust is very expensive.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”
~ Mother Teresa

“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe… Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.”
~ H. L. Mencken

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
~Frank Crane

“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ”
~Cardinal De Retz

“Those who trust us educate us.”
~T.S. Eliot

“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
~ Barbra Streisand

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
~Samuel Johnson

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
~George MacDonald

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
~Alfred Adler

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
~ Golda Meir

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
~Aesop

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
~Anton Chekhov

Ah.. This one is very true and funny.. funny times
“Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.”
~Helen Rowland

“Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.”
~Oliver Cromwell

“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
~Horace

“When mistrust comes in, love goes out.”
~Irish Sayings

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