Inspirational Quotes - 3
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
TCriticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Death will come to everyone. To me it means freedom, peace, going home.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Life is not a "brief candle." It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
All glory comes from daring to begin.
These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt, and hesitation.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Most of us would rather be ruined by praise, than saved by criticism.
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height; In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.
It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Hope is a good Breakfast, but it is a poor dinner.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A Dream is woven from thin air and nothing, embroidered with wishes and everything, then filled with the padding of hope and delight.
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