Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

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

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

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

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

Here are some vanity quotes that I found inspiring.

“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld

“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person”
~ Mark Twain

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
~Mark Twain

“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
~Vincent Van Gogh

We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

“What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own ”
~François de la Rochefoucauld

Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
~ William Shakespeare

“It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is “lighter than vanity.”
~John Bunyan

“The love of one’s own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.”
~Maria Mitchell

“A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice”
~ Walter Savage Landor

“Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.”
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
~George Savile

“Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity”
~Jean de la Bruyere

“Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this”
~ Blaise Pascal

“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
~John Keats

Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
~George Eliot

“Religion is the highest vanity.”
~ Hebbel

A man’s own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
~Honore de Balzac

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” ~ Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman.

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”~ Horace Mann

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The three signs of great men are — generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.” ~Otto von Bismarck, The First Chancellor of Germany

“To generous souls every task is noble.”~ Euripides, the Greek Tragedian

“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”~ Jean-Paul Sartre, The french existentialist philosopher and novelist.

“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.”~Thornton Wilder

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” ~H. Jackson Brown

“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”~ Jean-Paul Sartre

“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”~ Winston Churchill

“Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.” ~Pierre Corneille

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”~ Albert Camus

“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”~Albert Camus

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” ~Mother Teresa

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ~Kahlil Gibran

More Kahlil Gibran Quotes.

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”~Buddha

“What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interests.”~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld the French author of maxims and memoirs.

“Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule — these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.” From the Bhagavad Gita

Some Giving Quotes and sayings!

“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.”~ Albert Einstein

“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”~Anne Frank

“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s important to give it all you have while you have the chance.”~ Shania Twain, yes that Shania who sings some awesome songs

“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”~ Publilius Syrus

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”~ Kahlil Gibran

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”~ Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”~ Lao-Tzu

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.” ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”~ Princess Elizabeth

“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”~William Shakespeare

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.” ~George Eliot