Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.[Tobey Maguire] Quote:A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.[Saint Augustine] Quote:In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.[Dave Barry] Quote:Humor is the most engaging cowardice.[Robert Frost] Quote:The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.[Robert Frost] Quote:It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.[Aristotle] Quote:Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.[Thomas Edison] 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:A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.[Ludwig Wittgenstein] Quote:In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.[H.G. Wells] Quote:Peace is its own reward.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.[Earl Nightingale] Quote:What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.[Dave Barry] Quote:Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.[Brian Tracy] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.[William Shakespeare] Quote:The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.[George Washington] Quote:Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness.[Ross Hersey] Quote:If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.[Jack Handey] Quote:To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.[Confucius] Quote:Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.[Plato] Quote:None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. [Ferdinand Foch] Quote:Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. [Bette Davis] Quote:It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. [Frank Herbert] Quote:A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. [Charles M. Schulz] Quote:The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. [Umberto Eco] Quote:He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. [Confucius] Quote:The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. [Helen Keller] Quote:Cowards are cruel, but the brave<br> Love mercy, and delight to save. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. [Dave Barry] Quote:The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. [Anatole France] Quote:Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Definitions of: wardDefinition: The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.Definition: One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection. Definition: The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody. Definition: A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard. Definition: One who, or that which, is guarded. Definition: A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery. Definition: A division of a county. Definition: A division, district, or quarter of a town or city. Definition: A division of a forest. Definition: A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward. Definition: A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it. Definition: A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch. Definition: To be vigilant; to keep guard. Definition: To act on the defensive with a weapon. |
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