Inspirational Quotations #287

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to
evaporate.
* Albert Schweitzer

As you see yourself, I once saw myself;
as you see me now, you will be seen.
* Mexican proverb

Death is as sure for that which is born,
as birth is for that which is dead.
Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
* Bhagavadgita

Even as a great fish swims along the two banks of a river,
first along the eastern bank and then the western bank,
in the same way the Spirit of man moves along beside his two dwellings:
this waking world and the land of sleep and dreams.
* The Upanishads

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret.
Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
* Oprah Winfrey

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
* Joseph Joubert

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination;
if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that
corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
* Lord Greville

Faults are thick where love is thin.
* English Proverb

Ninety percent of all politicians
give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
* Henry Kissinger

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
* Ivan Panin

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Inspirational Quotations #286

For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a lying dream, he only wakes
Who casts the World aside.
* Seami Motokiyo

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental
emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
* Albert Einstein

Make visible what, without you,
might perhaps never have been seen.
* Robert Bresson

Light is the first of painters.
There is no object so foul that intense
light will not make it beautiful.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of
mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all
the work using you as a mere instrument.
* Bhagavadgita

The world is governed by opinion.
* Thomas Hobbes

Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope,
the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long
as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in
the mind, strength in the hand.
* Swami Vivekananda

A wise man should keep far away from an unpleasant person, from
injuring others, from other’s views, from unrighteous conduct and
from untruth.
* Subhashita

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
* Walter Lippman

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Inspirational Quotations #285

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future
is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
* Rollo May

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man
does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
* St. Thomas Aquinas

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
* Bertrand Russell

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
* Niels Bohr

You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.
* Sacha Guitry

Under all speech that is good for anything
there lies a silence that is better,
Silence is deep as Eternity;
Speech is shallow as Time.
* Thomas Carlyle

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks almost instantly.
* Bits and Pieces

You do not destroy an idea by killing people;
you replace it with a better one.
* Edward Keating

All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
* Charles Henry Parkhurst

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
* Robert Louis Stevenson

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Inspirational Quotations #284

Grains collected by ants, honey accumulated by bees, and wealth
collected by a greedy miser,all perish along with the source.
* Subhashita

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
* Ian L. Fleming

It is not good enough for things to be planned -
they still have to be done;
for the intention to become a reality,
energy has to be launched into operation.
* Pir Vilayat Khan

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
* Isaac Newton

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow
that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts,
and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.
* Laura Schlessinger

I don’t want any “yes-men” around me. I want everybody
to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
* Samuel Goldwyn

We often rebel against the strenuousness and chaos of
our time. But historically it has always been in such
time that man won his great inner victories.
* E. M. McKee

Talk happiness.
The world is sad enough without your woe.
No path is wholly rough.
* Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning,
manifest in their interim state,
and unmanifest again when they are annihilated.
So what need is there for lamentation?
* Bhagavadgita

You can’t depend on your eyes when you imagination is out of focus.
* Mark Twain

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Inspirational Quotations #283

All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The
gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we
find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
* Swami Vivekananda

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality:
Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one’s actions.
* Siddha Nagarjuna

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
* Kahlil Gibran

As I grew older, I pay less attention to
what men say, I just watch what they do.
* Andrew Carnegie

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves
for we shall never cease to be amused.
* Anonymous

The abundant life does not come to those who have had
a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others.
It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
* William Mather Lewis

There is no shame in not knowing;
the shame lies in not finding out.
* Russian Proverb

Anyone can make the simple complicated.
Creativity is making the complicated simple.
* Charles Mingus

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
* Aristotle Onassis

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
* Aristotle

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