Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

Some Inspirational quotes on self respect.

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

“I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‘em out, I pick the round.”
~ Muhammad Ali (The Boxer)

“Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.”
~Anna Gould

” Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
~Joan Didion

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
~Unknown

“Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.”
~Virginia Woolf

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”
~John Herschel

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.”
~ Gail Sheehy

“Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.”
~J. Petit-Senn

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
~Clint Eastwood

“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”
~William J. H. Boetcker

“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
~Les Brown

Here is a collection of my favorite Abraham Lincoln Quotes on inspiration. The best of the lot being, “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. ”

It is often the common folks who feels most miserable, and needs the most motivation because they feel they aren’t special. Abraham Lincoln had to say this about the Common People.
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. “

Here are some inspirational quotes on leadership

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” ~George S. Patton

“If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. “~ Admiral Grace Hopper

“The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. “~ Henry Miller

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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

“In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”~Eric Hoffer

“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. “~ Ross Perot

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. “~Abraham Lincoln

Starting with this famous quote by Karl Marx, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ”
We have a compiled our collection of Motivational and inspirational quotes on Ability.

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” ~ John Wooden

“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S Forbes

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”~ Rosalynn Carter

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~Helen Keller

“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”~ Zig Ziglar

“Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.” ~Didacus Stella

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” ~Malcolm S. Forbes

“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.” ~Mary Lou Retton

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. ” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.” ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

“Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~Mother Teresa

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.” ~Stevie Wonder

“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.” ~Chinese proverb

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” ~Francis Bacon

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” ~Winston Churchill

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte

“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.” ~Andrew Carnegie

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.” ~Abraham Maslow

“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.” ~John Henry Newman

“It is difficult to tell how much men’s minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.”~ Cicero

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” ~Bob Hope

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”~Henry James

“A little more than kin, and less than kind!” ~William Shakespeare

“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life - reciprocity.” ~Confucius

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” ~Blaise Pascal

“On that best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”~William Wordsworth

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”~Goethe

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ” ~Dalai Lama

“The only religion is kindness.”~ Dalai Lama

“One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.”~ Malayan Proberb

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~
Mahatma Gandhi

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”~ Margaret Mead

“The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” ~ Robert Frost

“”I am an idealist. I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”~Carl Sandburg

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” ~ Douglas Macarthur

“They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is one of my all time favorites, “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ~ Bruce Lee. very true and Inspiring

“”I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish
humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along,
not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny
pushes of each honest worker.”~ Helen Keller

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~Albert Camus

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” ~Robert Anthony

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” ~Edith Wharton

One a Funnier note, “Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” ~Albert Schweitzer

“People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. “~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” ~Gretta Brooker Palmer

” Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~Helen Keller. More Helen Keller Quotes

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” ~Douglas Jerrold

Albert Camus ( 1913 - 1960) was a French author and philosopher who won the Nobel prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label. On the other hand, as he wrote in his essay The Rebel, his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism. On the subject of his belief or not in God, he writes in the third volume of his notebooks one of his famous, irrational paradoxes: “I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist”. [Courtesy:wikipedia]

1) “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.”

2) “Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”

3) “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.”

4) “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

5) “It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.”

Here is a collection of Inspirational quotes by Helen Keller:

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

“Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

“I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. ”

“I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers”

I have also filed this page under Motivational Speaker category. You see you don’t have to talk to speak!!!
And I would end this page by quoting Helen again, “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. “