Inspirational Quotes


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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational Quotes and Success Quotes19 May 2009 05:35 pm

Hera are some Inspirational work quotes, because if I can inspire you to work, then there is no stopping you. Because the one thing that keeps us from being successful is our inability to work without being lazy or unmotivated.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Winston Churchill

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
~ John Ruskin

Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life
~ Harvey MacKay

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
~Henry David Thoreau

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow’s; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
~Benjamin Franklin

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
~Pablo Picasso

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~Pearl S. Buck

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
~Anatole France

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
~Henry J. Kaiser

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~Aristotle

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
~Abraham Lincoln

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.
~Uri Geller

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas A. Edison

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