Tuesday, March 27, 2012

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HOPE

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HOPE
"Hope isn't about wishing for things to happen; hope happens when there is a will and freedom of choice to act without prejudice."
Byron Pulsifer

"We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
Barck Obama

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."
Christopher Reeve

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie

"To give hope to someone occurs when you teach them how to use the tools to do it for themselves."
Byron Pulsifer

"All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope."
Henri J. Nouwen

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.
Thomas Merton

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.
Louisa May Alcott

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
Titus Maccius Plautus

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
Edgar Howe

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
Samuel Johnson

Hoping just doesn't get it done; taking positive and consistent action over time does.
Byron Pulsifer

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marian Zimmer Bradley

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
George Iles

When a person has true hope it means that they have taken a wish and turned it into a goal. And, from that goal, detailed action is taken that turns hope to reality.
Byron Pulsifer

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
Samuel Johnson

We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.
Sloan, Tina. Changing Shoes. Gotham Books, 2010, p. 142.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Ronald Reagan

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.
French Proverb

Never lose hope no matter how long it takes! Believe in yourself even when you feel alone in your battles.
Shadonna Richards, A Gift of Hope

He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failure as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them.
Wilferd Peterson, The Art of Living

Thursday, March 22, 2012

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HONESTY

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HONESTY
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. Josh Billings

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. Henry Louis Mencken

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. George Washington

No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

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

One of the most basic core values is honesty. Catherine Pulsifer

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. Zig Ziglar

Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. Charles Dickens

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. Spencer Johnson

Be prepared and be honest. John Wooden

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. John F. Dodge

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. Abraham Lincoln

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. Mary MacCracken

Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind. Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. Nelson Mandela

Honesty is fearing a negative response and telling the truth anyway. Michelle C. Ustaszeski

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. Andrew Carnegie

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Gandhi

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. Ambrose Bierce

Monday, March 12, 2012

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HEALTH

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HEALTH
Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over care of it.
Benjamin Franklin

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney J. Harris

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
Mignon McLaughlin

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Clement Freud

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabic Proverb

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
Adelle Davis

Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Cher

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Thomas Fuller

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Hygiene is two thirds of health.
Lebanese Phrase

Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
Washington Irving

It is health which is real wealth, not pieces of silver and gold.
Gandhi

For each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything thy goodness sends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
Latin Proverb

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.
Theodore Roosevelt

What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.
Jewish Phrase

Good health, good luck, and happiness For today and every day.
Irish Saying

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HAPPINESS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : HAPPINESS
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Albert Schweitzer

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." Albert Camus

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature." Anne Frank

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." Benjamin Franklin

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." Adam Smith

"Happiness is a state of mind not what's in your wallet." Byron Pulsifer

"If you want to be happy, be." Leo Tolstoy

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily." Plato

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." Denis Waitley

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." Bertrand Russell

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" Albert Camus

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam Smith

Friday, March 2, 2012

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : GREATNESS

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES : GREATNESS
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." Henry Ward Beecher

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." Napoleon Hill

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them." Marleen Charles de Montesquieu

"A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed." Ansel Adams

"There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity." Buck Rodgers

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it." Rainer Maria Rilke

"It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others." Dalai Lama

"It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being." Sigmund Freud

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." Henry Ford

"Responsibility is the price of greatness." Winston Churchill

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit." W. Clement Stone

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." Napoleon Hill

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." Benjamin Disraeli

"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude." Pat Riley

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