Virtues and Wisdom18 Jun 2009 03:04 am

Here are some quotes and sayings on jealousy starting with my favorite:
“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. ”
~Charley Reese

“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
~ Francoise Sagan

“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
~ Baltasar Gracian

“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
~ John Dryden

“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”
~Lawrence Durrell

“Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.”
~ François de la Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.
~Karl Kraus

“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.”
~ Spanish Proverb

“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”
~ George Bernard Shaw

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”
~Elizabeth Bowen

This is a very true jealousy quote “As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.”
~Antisthenes

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
~ George Washington

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
~H. G. Wells

“Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ”
~Honore de Balzac

“Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.”
~William Shenstone

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
~Bob Marley

Happiness and Motivational Speakers and Success Quotes17 Jun 2009 09:11 am

These success quotes will surely inspire you to become successful in life. I hope you enjoy these inspirational success quotes..

“But you should first be clear about what success means to you, because as this quote below says,
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn’t a millionaire.Here’s what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn’t.”
~Jim Rohn

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”
~David Brinkley

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
~Earl Nightingale

” Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
~Albert Schweitzer

“It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
~ Aristotle

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.”
~Arie de Gues

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
~ Marie Currie

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
~ David Rockefelle

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”
~ Norman R. Augustine

” I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
~Frank Lloyd Wright

“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.”
~Henry Drummond

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
~Thomas Alva Edison

“The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work – if you won’t.”
~Zig Ziglar

After reading these success quotes, I hope you will have been clearer about your goals now.

General Topics16 Jun 2009 06:48 pm

Some inspirational quotes on truth, and some are funny:

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
~Stopford Brooke

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
~Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~Oscar Wilde

First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along.
~Alexander Humbold

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~Oscar Wilde

Turns out if you never lie, there’s always someone mad at you.
~Scott Westerfeld

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James Arthur Baldwin

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.
~ Adrian Rodgers

You never find yourself until you face the truth
~ Pearl Bailey

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
~ Goethe

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
~Albert Einstein

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
~Tryon Edwards

What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth.
~Linda Ellinor

There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn’t so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
~Soren Kierkegaard

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
~Edith Sitwell

When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. ~Anonymous

The truth is more important than the facts.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
~Niels Bohr

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~Mark Twain

All generalizations, including this one, are false.
~Mark Twain

Inspirational Quotes and Motivational Speakers14 Jun 2009 07:07 pm

Inspirational Quotes on Suffering:

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
~Kahlil Gibran

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
~Wallace Stegner

Where there is love, there is pain.
~Spanish proverb

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
~Aesop

To be weak is miserable Doing or suffering, but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight.
~Milton,John

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
~John Cleese

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~Marcel Proust

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
~Leo Tolstoy

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
~Victor Hugo

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
~Marcel Proust

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
~Eliot

Inspirational Quotes and Motivational Speakers and Wisdom11 Jun 2009 10:05 am

Some Inspirational Quotes on struggle.
“The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.”
~ Unknown Author

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
~ Heraclitus

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
~ Hellen Keller

Don’t try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.
~ Daniel Quinn, Adapted from the proverb on not feeding a fish but teaching how to catch the fish.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
~ Henry David Thoreau

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
~Pierre de Coubertin

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
~Stephen Covey

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~Leon Trotsky

A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle. A defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
~ Sun Tzu,

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.
~Shelby Steele

If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounter bees.
~ Thomas Szasz
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
~Golda Meir

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
~Ossie Davis

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
~ Nietzsche

Misfortunes one can endure. But to suffer for one’s own faults — ah! — there is the sting of life
~Oscar Wilde

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
~ Struggle quote by Arthur C. Clarke

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
~Franz Kafka
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
~ J. Willard Marriott

Motivational Quotes and Motivational Speakers and Presidents07 Jun 2009 06:27 pm

Here are some inspirational quotes on temptations or rather avoiding temptation and self control to resist temptation. We are all inherently good and strong, but the temptations ge the better of us and are often stronger that we give in to it and do things that we regret and do things that will stop us from being successful. But then it is in our genes. Men have always found it difficult to resist temptation, and so have women.

Here are some inspirational quotes that will save you from temptations if you tried, harder.

Don’t seek temptations:
“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ”
~Alyce Robertson

“The most important lesson I`ve learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. ”
~Penelope Cruz

“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friend… ”
~Boris Yeltsin

“What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.”
~ Steve Lacy

“What can you ever really know of other people`s souls – of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands.”
~ C.S. Lewis on temptations

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

“The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.”
~John Wycliffe

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

“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
~Oscar Wilde

“A good poor man is better than a good rich man because he has to resist more temptations. ”
~ R. W. Livingstone

“The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.”
~ Neil Anderson

“Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham

“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
~Robert Orben

Virtues03 Jun 2009 10:10 am

Here are some inspirational tolerance quotes.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
~Giacomo Leopardi

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ~Helen Keller

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
~ Henry David Thoreau

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
~Hedy Lamarr

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
~ Sir Walter Besant

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
~Scott Hamilton

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
~Giacomo Leopardi

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
~Dalai Lama’s quote on Tolerance

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
~Kahlil Gibran

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
~Emile Zola

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
~ George Eliot

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~Ralph W. Sockman on courage and tolerance

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~Albert Einstein

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
~Edmund Burke

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
~Voltaire

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Inspirational Quotes and Motivational Quotes and Success Quotes01 Jun 2009 05:48 am

Victory comes in the end, and but it is the sight of victory in your dreams and thoughts that will inspire you to fight, and to walk that extra mile when everyone else are exhausted. Here are some famous victory quotes.

And when you are defeated, do understand that it is not the end of the world, and success comes to those who refuses to yield. And pasts defeats will only add to the sweetness of your victories later:

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.”
~Malcolm S. Forbes

“If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”
~ Vince Lombardi

“Victory is a thing of the will.”
~General Ferdinand Foch

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
~ Louis L’Amour

“Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
~John Milton

“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.”
~ St. Augustine

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.”
~ Harry S Truman

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
~Winston Churchill

“You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.”
~Harriet Woods

“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.”
~William Hazlitt

“Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.”
~Zig Ziglar

“I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.”
~Joan Benoit Samuelson

“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”
~Blaise Pascal

“The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.”
~ Plato

“Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
~Daisaku Ikeda

“The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.”
~ F. A. Wickett

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
~Sun Tzu

“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
~Sun Tzu

“The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.”
~Wilma Rudolph

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”
~Aristotle

Happiness and Inspirational Quotes and Motivational Quotes30 May 2009 05:55 am

Some Inspirational Quotes on Value:

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
~Thomas Paine

“The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
~Thomas A. Edison

“Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has a price. The price is effort.”
~Loretta Young

“A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.”
~T. Boone Pickens

“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.”
~Albert Einstein

“You are only worth has much as you have.”
~Unknown

“I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
~C. S. Lewis

“Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.”
~ Karl Marx

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
~ C. S. Lewis

“We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.”
~French Proverb

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
~Warren Buffett

“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”
~Jim Rohn

“Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.”
~ John Webster

“First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.”
~Ryszard Kapuscinski

“That which costs little is less valued.”
~Miguel De Cervantes

“The good things in life are like the birth of a child. Ninety percent waiting.”
~James Michener

“The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.”
~Arthur H. Stainback

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

“We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.”
~Gloria Steinem

“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational Quotes and Wisdom28 May 2009 06:01 pm

Some inspirational quotes on worth, sayings on self worth and value and some quotes with the word worth.. Or the worth of Men!!
Also see these inspirational quotes on value.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
~Albert Einstein

We are all something, but none of us are everything.
~Blaise Pascal

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~Goethe

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~Edgar Watson Howe

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

The game is not worth the candle.
~ French proverb

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
~James Garfield

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
~Michael Korda

If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-worth and confidence, and there is no need to be fearful of others
~ Dalai Lama

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~Friedrich Engels

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy
~ Wayne Dyer

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
~Cicero

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem
~ H. Burke Peterson

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
~Benjamin Franklin

An unexamined life is not worth living.
~Socrates

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
~William Lyon Phelps

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