Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.[Will Durant] Quote:Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, like that movie Spaceballs. But instead it was dark and disturbing. Like that movie -- Police Academy.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.[Saint Augustine] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.[Susan B. Anthony] Quote:An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.[Franklin Jones] 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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'[Isaac Asimov] Quote:Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...[Dave Barry] 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 unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings![Henry Ward Beecher] 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:If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.[E.B. White] Quote:I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.[Robert Frost] 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:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.[George Dennison Prentice] 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: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:The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.[Bill Maher] Quote:Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.[Mark Twain] Quote:I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.[Mark Twain] Quote:Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.[Mark Twain] Quote:An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[Thomas Paine] Quote:My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.[George Washington] Quote:I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating.[Mike Tyson] Quote:Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.[George Carlin] Quote:I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.[Andr Gide] Quote:Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.[Steve Martin] Quote:Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:The man who regards life as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.[Albert Einstein] Quote:God is clever, but not dishonest.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.[Author Unknown] Quote:The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right.[Mark Twain] Quote:Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.[Author Unknown] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] 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:Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.[John Barrymore] 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:Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.[Saul Bellow] Quote:I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'[Saul Bellow] Quote:Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.[Mahatma Gandhi] 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:If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.[J.R.R. Tolkien] 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:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.[Douglas Adams] Quote:I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.[Mark Twain] 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:There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.[Woody Allen] Quote:Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.[George MacDonald] Quote:Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.[Siddhartha Buddha] 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 last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.[Blaise Pascal] 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:In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.[Plato] Quote:You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.[Plato] Quote:The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.[Plato] 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:Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.[Plato] Quote:We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. [Cato the Elder] Quote:Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. [Cato the Elder] 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:This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, <br>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, <br>This other Eden, demi-paradise, <br>This fortress built by Nature for herself <br>Against infection and the hand of war, <br>This happy breed of men, this little world, <br>This precious stone set in the silver sea, <br>Which serves it in the office of a wall <br>Or as a moat defensive to a house, <br>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- <br>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. [Aeschylus] Quote:The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. [John Cage] Quote:One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. [German Proverb] Quote:One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. [Agatha Christie] Quote:If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. [E. B. White] Quote:Life is a sexually transmitted disease. [Anonymous] Quote:Life is a sexually transmitted disease. [Anonymous] Quote:Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. [Jawaharlal Nehru] Quote:The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi] Quote:The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. [Sir William Osler] Quote:Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. [Mark Twain] Quote:Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [Mark Twain] Quote:I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. [Herbert Hoover] Quote:The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. [Tom Lehrer] Quote:If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. [Isaac Newton] Quote:Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. [Ann Landers] Quote:The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. [Democritus] Quote:What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. [Hippocrates] Quote:Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. [David Assael] Quote:Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. [Ronald Reagan] Quote:As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. [Adelle Davis] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. [Bob Newhart] Quote:Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. [Albert Camus] Quote:Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:Seek simplicity, and distrust it. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [Ayn Rand] Quote:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. [Confucius] 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:You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. [Hermann Hesse] Quote:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [Samuel Johnson] Quote:Not every age is fit for childish sports. [Titus Maccius Plautus] Quote:The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. [Anthelme Brillat-Savarin] 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:He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." [H. L. Mencken] Quote:The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. [Galileo Galilei] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] Quote:The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. [William James] 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:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. [Beverly Sills] Quote:Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him. [Bible] Quote:Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. [Plato] Quote:No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. [Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. [Baruch Spinoza] Quote:This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. 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