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: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:Intense love does not measure, it just gives.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.[Joseph Addison] Quote:As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.[WT Purkiser] Quote:The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.[Wayne Dyer] Quote:It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.[Mark Twain] Quote:To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.[Frank Tyger] Quote:As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later, when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.[Jonathan Carroll] Quote:Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will; he will be sure to repent it.[Socrates] Quote:Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting.[George Orwell] Quote:With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured.[Mark Twain] Quote:I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.[Booker T. Washington] Quote:I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.[Margaret Mead] Quote:Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home![Charles Dickens] Quote:The greatest pleasure of life is love.[William Temple] Quote:Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote:Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.[George Washington] Quote:What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.[Joseph Addison] Quote:A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.[Geof Greenleaf] Quote:Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Courage is grace under pressure.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:God is a concept by which we measure our pain.[John Lennon] Quote:A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.[Ted Nugent] Quote:He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.[Plato] Quote:Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.[Plato] Quote:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.[John F. Kennedy] 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:Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. [Seneca] Quote:Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. [Aaron Copland] Quote:Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. [Bill Watterson] Quote:Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. [Jose Ortega y Gasset] Quote:There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. [Pliny the Younger] Quote:Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. [George Santayana] Quote:Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. [Ernest Hemingway] Quote:The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. [Anne Morrow Lindbergh] Quote:I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. [Mark Twain] Quote:Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. [Henri Matisse] Quote:If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. [Carl Schurz] Quote:I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. [Helen Keller] 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:It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. [John Kenneth Galbraith] Quote:Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. [Aristotle] Quote:Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. [Euripides] Quote:Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. [Euripides] 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:Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, <br> Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. [Elbert Hubbard] 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:There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. [Lyndon B. Johnson] Quote:The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. [Elizabeth Taylor] Definitions of: sureDefinition: Certainly knowing and believing; confident beyond doubt; implicity trusting; unquestioning; positive.Definition: Certain to find or retain; as, to be sure of game; to be sure of success; to be sure of life or health. Definition: Fit or worthy to be depended on; certain not to fail or disappoint expectation; unfailing; strong; permanent; enduring. Definition: Betrothed; engaged to marry. Definition: Free from danger; safe; secure. |
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