Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| 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:It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.[Dave Barry] Quote:The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today's complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.[Dave Barry] Quote:Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[Dave Barry] Quote:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[Dave Barry] Quote:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.[Victor Hugo] 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:The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.[Stephen King] Quote:To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.[George Washington] Quote:Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.[Mike Tyson] Quote:You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.[Yogi Berra] Quote:There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.[George Carlin] Quote:We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the oposite direction.[George Carlin] Quote:The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:Eighty percent of success is showing up.[Woody Allen] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] Quote:Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. [Thomas A. Edison] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. [Bruce Barton] Quote:After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. [Henry Bromel] Quote:What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. [M. C. Escher] Quote:Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. [David Letterman] Definitions of: centDefinition: A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.Definition: A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc. Definition: An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. |
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