Motivational Quotes


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

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

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 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

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

Funny Quotes and Motivational Quotes and Wisdom27 May 2009 06:10 am

Some Inspirational quotes by women and some quotes on women.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.
~ Farrah Fawcett

I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
~Vita Sackville-West

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Women prefer emotions to reasoning
~ Marie Henri Beyle

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
~ Chinese Proverbs

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
~Sally Berger

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
~Oscar Wilde

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~Martha Washington

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
~Mae West

I hate women because they always know where things are.
~Voltaire

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead

I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.
~Stanley Baldwin

Motivational Quotes20 May 2009 05:46 pm

Some worry quotes to inspire you when you are worried and stops you from doing it because you are worried and filled with anxiety. It is good to worry but not so much that it hampers with your performance. Enjoy the worry quotes.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.
Sir John Lubbock

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Dean William R. Inge

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. MarkTwain
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Glenn Turner

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania Twain

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

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
Henry Ward Beecher

If you worry about the future, and dwell on the past, you can’t enjoy the present
Emily Gibbons

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles

have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Alice Walker

If there be no remedy, why worry?
Spanish Proverb

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish Proverb

Sometimes we start to worry too much about what other people think of us, enjoy being yourself.
Mel Gussow

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry… Yesterday and Tomorrow.
Robert Jones Burdette

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles Schultz

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia

Motivational Quotes and Motivational Speakers08 May 2009 01:35 am

Here are some Inspirational quotes on Strength, because it is what we need, when the going get tough and we have to succeed sailing through the storm. These quotes will help you get your inner strength.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
~Lebanese Proverb

All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise. ~Anne Bronte

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
~Francis Bacon

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
~Norman Vincent Peale

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
~Arnold Schwarzenegger

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
~Marcus Aurelius

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
~John Beecher

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~Lao-Tzu

I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.
~Martin Luther King Jr

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
~Helen Keller

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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