Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.[Andrew Carnegie] Quote:I have a microwave fireplace. I can lay down in front of the fire for the evening in eight minutes.[Steven Wright] Quote:I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.[Barbara Bush] Quote:I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.[Booker T. Washington] Quote:Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.[Victor Hugo] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.[Brigham Young] Quote:Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.[Joseph Barth] Quote:Business today consists in persuading crowds.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.[Roger Ebert] Quote:We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.[John Donne] Quote:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.[Dave Barry] Quote:On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR's even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.[Dave Barry] Quote:I assume you are on the Internet. If you are not, then pardon my French, but vous ehzeh un big loser. Today EVERYBODY is on the Internet, including the primitive Mud People of the Amazon rain forest. In the old days, when the Mud People needed food, they had to manually throw spears at wild boars; whereas today they simply get on the Internet, go to www.spear-a-boar.com and click their mouse a few times (the Mud People use actual mice). Within three business days, a large box is delivered to them by a UPS driver, whom they eat.[Dave Barry] Quote:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.[Laurence Peter] Quote:This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.[Mark Twain] Quote:There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington] Quote:Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.[George Washington] Quote:Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.[George Washington] Quote:Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.[Saint Augustine] Quote:They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.[Mike Tyson] Quote:Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The crowd makes the ballgame.[Ty Cobb] Quote:If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.[Bruce Lee] Quote:In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.[Woody Allen] Quote:No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.[George Berkeley] Quote:If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.[H.P. Lovecraft] Quote:The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.[Doug Larson] Quote:He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.[George Eliot] Quote:Absence makes the heart grow fonder.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Those whom the gods love grow young.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.[Laura Ingalls Wilder] Quote:There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.[William Blake] Quote:If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.[Jack Handey] Quote:If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.[William Blake] Quote:The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.[Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It?s the age-old struggle?the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.[Henny Youngman] Quote:What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.[Plato] Quote:On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. [Aesop] Quote:When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. [Madeleine L'Engle] Quote:Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. [Franklin P. Adams] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] Quote:If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. [Henry S. Haskins] Quote:The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. [George Eliot] Quote:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. [Helen Hayes] Quote:A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. [Etty Hillesum] Quote:Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. [Rabbi Abraham Heschel] Quote:The future will be better tomorrow. [Dan Quayle] Quote:The crowd gives the leader new strength. [Evenius] Definitions of: rowDefinition: Rough; stern; angry.Definition: A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns. Definition: To use the oar; as, to row well. Definition: To be moved by oars; as, the boat rows easily. |
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