Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.[Samuel Johnson] 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:Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.[Nelson Henderson] Quote:Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it;[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.[Dave Barry] Quote:Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.[WT Purkiser] Quote:The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.[Robert Frost] Quote:Cliches are made because they're true.[Miriam M. Wynn] Quote:A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote: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.[Fulke Greville] 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:There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.[Socrates] Quote:True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.[Socrates] Quote:True friends stab you in the front.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Our true nationality is mankind.[H.G. Wells] Quote:I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Of all lies, art is the least untrue.[Gustave Flaubert] Quote:I've occasionally heard that I was kicked out of Harvard for being a Communist, for dealing drugs, for corrupting minors, or for diverse other infractions of local decorum. Unfortunately, none of these rumors are true. The one I've heard more often is that I am dead. That one I encouraged, hoping it would cut down on the junk mail. It didn't.[Tom Lehrer] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A loving heart is the truest wisdom.[Charles Dickens] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty...this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.[Niels Bohr] Quote:A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.[Ansel Adams] Quote:It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.[George Washington] Quote:True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.[William Shakespeare] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.[Robert Wilensky] Quote:Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. [Amos Bronson Alcott] Quote:Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:[Spring is] a true reconstructionist. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. [John Cleese] Quote:The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. [Robert Ingersoll] Quote:The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. [Colette] Quote:The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Cowards are cruel, but the brave<br> Love mercy, and delight to save. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. [Marquis de Vauvenargues] Quote:In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. [Julius Caesar] Quote:Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. [Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey] Quote:Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! [H. L. Mencken] Quote:ONE WHO WAITS: There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by.<br> ED: Which one do you think it is?<br> ONE WHO WAITS: Ah. I think that time is just time. [Geoffrey Neighor] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] Quote:Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't. [Cynthia Ozick] Quote:You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. [Carrie Fisher] Definitions of: rueDefinition: A perennial suffrutescent plant (Ruta graveolens), having a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; herb of grace. It is used in medicine.Definition: Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret. Definition: To have compassion. Definition: To feel sorrow and regret; to repent. |
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