My Favourite Insiprational Words
"Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household." - Tryon Edwards
Whenever I am feeling in need of a bit of uplifting I turn to a quote for some inspiration and words of wisdom. I post my favourite ones here to share that experience with you, so do check back periodically and enjoy.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
~ Stephen Hawking
I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel ~ Maya Angelou
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise. ~ Maya Angelou
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest ~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge is power, Information is liberating, Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family
~ Kofi Annan
Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! The brooding and blissful halcyon days! ~ Walt Whitman
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow ~ Helen Keller
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ~ Charles M Shultz
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it ~ Frances Wright
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey ~ John Ruskin
The cruelest lies are often told in silence ~ Adlai Stevenson
Be the change you want to see in the world ~ Ghandi
I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror, I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways, & No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer, If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place, Take A Look At Yourself, Then Make A Change
~ Michael Jackson - RIP 25/06/2009
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not ~ Jerry Gellis
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away ~ Unknown
Our destiny is shaped by our thoughts and our actions we cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
~ Unknown
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future ~ Oscar Wilde
Patience and Perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish
~ John Quincy Adams
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step ~ Lao Tzu
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear ~ Socrates
Its not that I am so smart, it's that I stay with problems longer ~ Albert Einstein
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The mass of man lead lives of quiet desperation; what is called resignation is confirmed desperation ~ Henry David Thoreau
The future depends on what we do in the present ~ Mahatma Ghandi
Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed. ~ Martina Navratilova
You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
~ George Bernard Shaw
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials ~ Cicero
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right ~ Henry Ford
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. ~ Groucho Marx
The power of imagination makes us infinite ~ John Muir
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out ~ James Bryant Conant
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it ~ Martin Luther King
More than anything though, I enjoy who I am, and I am who I want to be. The destination is the journey, and the journey has been a homecoming ~ Jenny Roberts
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do ~ Helen Keller
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
~ Stephen Hawking
I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel ~ Maya Angelou
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise. ~ Maya Angelou
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest ~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge is power, Information is liberating, Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family
~ Kofi Annan
Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! The brooding and blissful halcyon days! ~ Walt Whitman
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow ~ Helen Keller
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ~ Charles M Shultz
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it ~ Frances Wright
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey ~ John Ruskin
The cruelest lies are often told in silence ~ Adlai Stevenson
Be the change you want to see in the world ~ Ghandi
I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror, I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways, & No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer, If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place, Take A Look At Yourself, Then Make A Change
~ Michael Jackson - RIP 25/06/2009
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not ~ Jerry Gellis
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away ~ Unknown
Our destiny is shaped by our thoughts and our actions we cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
~ Unknown
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future ~ Oscar Wilde
Patience and Perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish
~ John Quincy Adams
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step ~ Lao Tzu
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour to be what you desire to appear ~ Socrates
Its not that I am so smart, it's that I stay with problems longer ~ Albert Einstein
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The mass of man lead lives of quiet desperation; what is called resignation is confirmed desperation ~ Henry David Thoreau
The future depends on what we do in the present ~ Mahatma Ghandi
Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed. ~ Martina Navratilova
You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
~ George Bernard Shaw
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials ~ Cicero
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right ~ Henry Ford
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. ~ Groucho Marx
The power of imagination makes us infinite ~ John Muir
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out ~ James Bryant Conant
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it ~ Martin Luther King
More than anything though, I enjoy who I am, and I am who I want to be. The destination is the journey, and the journey has been a homecoming ~ Jenny Roberts
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do ~ Helen Keller
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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