Inspirational Quotes - 1

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
~ General George S. Patton, Jr

Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
~ W S Somerset Maughm

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
~ Paul Sweeney

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
~ Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
~ Abba Eban

There is something much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
~ Robert Half

Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
~ Anon

The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot.
~ Walter Bagehut

A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is the statement of an agreeable untruth.
~ Sir John A. MacDonald

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
~ Anon

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

You are what you think about all day long.
~ Anon

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
~ Sir Walter Scott

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
~ Anon

Don't let time take control of your destiny.
Let your destiny take control of your time.
~ Ulrick Ricardo Milord

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z.
Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein

Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
~ Joann Thomas

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
~ Benjamin Jowett

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
~ Louis L'Amour

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ William James

Learning history is easy.
Learning its lessons is almost impossible.
~ Anon

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
~ Anon

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~ William Jennings Bryan

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
~ Anon

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
~ Albert Einstein

Quality is presence of value and not absence of mistake.
~ Anon

True friends stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde

A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.
~ Anon

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~ H Jackson Browne

Motivation determines what you do...
Attitude determines how well you do it.
~ Anon

Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Change before you have to.
~ Jack Welsh

Life's Lesson

I learn, as the years roll onward
And I leave the past behind,
That much I had counted sorrow
But proved that God is kind ;
That many a flower I'd longed for
Had hidden a thorn of pain
And many a rugged bypath
Led to the fields of ripened grain.
The clouds that cover the sunshine ;
They cannot banish the sun,
And the earth shines out the brighter
When the weary rain is done.
We must stand in the deepest shadow
To see the clearest light ;
And often through wrong's own darkness
Comes the welcome strength of Right.

- Anonymous

From the Mouth of Great Leaders