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Inspirational Quotations #163

April 2, 2007 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Anything’s possible. You can be told you have a 90% chance or a 50% chance or a 1% chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
—Lance Armstrong

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Happiness grows in our own gardens, and it is not to be picked up in strangers garden.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; but poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
—Sakya Pandita

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
—Willa Cather (American Novelist)

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… it tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
—Buddhist Teaching

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Salvation of the Dawn
Look to this day,
For it is life,
The very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the truths
And realities of your existence;
The bliss of growth
The glory of action, and
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salvation of the dawn.
—The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s gardens.
—Douglas William Jerrold (English Dramatist)

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