Inspirational Quotations by Unknown
- If you want to touch the past TOUCH A ROCK.
If you want to touch the present TOUCH A ROSE.
If you want to touch the future TOUCH A LIFE.
- Smile
Smile, even if it is a sad smile,
Because sadder than a sad smile
Is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
- Total silence does not exist
for where there is life there is sound.
- If you are feeling low, don't despair.
The sun has a sinking spell every night,
but it comes back up every morning.
- When love becomes thin, faults become thicker.
- Looking back, may I be filled with gratitude;
Looking forward, may I be filled with hope;
Looking upward, may I be aware of strength;
Looking inward, may I find peace.
- Confidence is not always being right,
It's not fearing being wrong.
- Imagination
Imagination - sparks dreams and laughter,
Dissolves barriers, expands knowledge and lights the mind.
Imagination also holds captive in dark places
Both the weak and strong, liquefies courage,
Builds enormous insurmountable fear.
- Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
- We are unlimited beings
Experiencing life in a physical body
Subject to the ceilings of our imagination.
- Do something bad and regret it
Do something good and forget it.
- I believe in the Sun ... even when it's not shining.
I believe in Love ... even when I feel it not.
I believe in God ... even when he is silent.
- A well-beaten path does not always make the right road.
- A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him,
but he can keep them from being right about it.
- We live in the present,
We dream of the future,
and we learn eternal truths from the past.
- We are not here to pursue happiness,
but to pursue those things which produce happiness.
- Those who have nothing on their mind,
usually have nothing in their mind.
- Who tries, can.
Who wills, does.
Who learns, lives.
- Some people dream of success,
While others wake up and work hard at it.
- Every job is self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence.
- RISK IT
To laugh is to risk being a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd
Is to risk their loss.
- Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110% effort!
- True friendship is like a star,
You don't see it's light in the brightness of prosperity;
But in the darkness of adversity.
- The Winner says, It may be difficult but it's possible;
The Loser says, It may be possible but it's difficult.
- Be happy; Be supportive; Be Naughty;
Be just like the way you are;
But don't get bored.
- Winners don't blame fate for their failures
Nor luck for their successes.
They know that a goal is only as worthy
As the effort that's required to achieve it.
- You don't know what tomorrow holds, but you know who holds tomorrow.
- If you drop a white glove into the mud,
the glove will get muddy but the mud will never get glovey.
- Don't ask meaningless questions and you won't get meaningless answers.
Ask something with a full heart
And you might get somewhere.
- Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you -
not because they are nice, but because you are.
- The person who risks nothing,
Does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.
The person who risks nothing
- I Will
I will think of better ways.
I will develop ways to achieve positive attitude.
I will keep reviewing my goals.
I will accept that I cannot change.
I will learn from my mistakes.
I will start living.
I will smile.
I will be happy.
I will enjoy myself.
I will be honest.
I will remain humble.
I will put myself in the other person's shoes.
- There are many things in life
That will catch your eye,
But only a few will catch your heart...
Pursue those.
- If you love something; set it free
If it comes back; it was meant to be.
- We teach some by what we say.
We teach more by what we do.
We teach most by what we are.
- When the wise get angry, they lose their wisdom.
- If I had eight hours to chop a tree,
I would spend six hours sharpening my axe.
- Success is having.
Excellence is being.
- No one can predict the height you can soar.
Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
- Don't compare yourself to what others are,
but to what you could be.
- Give, and forget.
Receive, and remember.
- Life is like a mirror:
if you frown at it, it frowns back;
if you smile, it returns the greeting.
- Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth.
Most have the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age.
- Success isn't the opposite of failure.
A runner may come in last, but if he beats his record, he succeeds.
- The optimist says, 'My cup runneth over, what a blessing'.
The pessimist says, 'My cup runneth over, what a mess.'
- Leadership is like moving a string,
you cannot move it by pushing from behind;
what you have to do is to get ahead and pull.
- Choose to say kind and tender words,
For one day you might have to eat them.
- We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing,
are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
- Follow the Master,
Face the Devil,
Fight to the end,
Finish the game.
- Whoever follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
- It is better to forget and smile,
than to remember and be sad.
- Success is never lasting,
And failure is never final.
- If you don't change today,
your tomorrows will be like your yesterdays.
- There is no indigestion worse than that
which comes from having to eat your own words.
- Learn from the past
Live for today
Look for tomorrow
Take a nap this afternoon
- Friends come and go,
But the memory of them will last forever.
- Success is a reward in itself,
But the greatest reward of success is knowing
you achieved it with hard work and dedication.
- Lessons taught in fear are remembered,
But lessons taught in love are cherished.
- A lot of people come in and out of our lives;
But only a treasured few make a difference;
Leave an impression of love that lasts forever.
- Life isn't a destination, it's a journey.
We all come upon unexpected curves and turning points,
Mountain tops and valleys.
Everything that happens to us
Shapes who we are becoming.
And in the adventure of each day,
We discover the best in ourselves.
- Risks must be taken because,
The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Only a person who risks is free.
- Failure is not getting knocked down,
It's refusing to get up.
- Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.
- Some people come into our lives and quickly go away...
Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts...
And we are never, ever the same...
- Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired --
it can only be earned.
- Yesterday is a cancelled cheque.
Tomorrow is a promised note.
Today is ready cash, use it!
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- If you haven't all the things that you want, be thankful for
all the things that you don't have that you didn't want.
- Money is an excellent servant,
but a horrible master.
- Let your mind go, and your body will follow.
- Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
- If you believe in yourself,
Then nothing can stop you
From achieving what you believe in.
- Time is like money:
you can either spend, waste, or invest!
- A match-stick has a head, but it does not have a brain.
- Fear knocked at the door;
Faith answered;
No one was there!
- I am not afraid of tomorrow,
For I have seen yesterday,
And I love today!
- I don't have problems, just challenges.
My mistakes and failures are my lessons,
While my triumphs are milestones of my journey in life;
For life would be meaningless
If I ended my journey of learning and improving myself.
- Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
- God saw a tear, and wiped it away with a smile from a friend.
- The past is behind; learn from it.
The present is here; live in it.
The future is ahead; prepare for it.
- Kites rise against,
not with the wind.
- The young man knows the rules,
but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Be a lion at heart and
do not forget the tact of a fox.
- 90 percent of the decisions can be taken immediately on
the basis of past experience,
and only 10 percent require in-depth analysis.
- Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
Opportunity.
Can't be.
Why not?
Opportunity knocks only once.
- From the ashes of failure bloom the roses of success.
- A wise man learns something new every day...
The fool knows it all already.
- God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't.
That should tell us something.
- The ratio between hard work and luck is 70:30.
- The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- One cannot change the past,
but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
- Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
- If you do what you have always done,
you will get what you have always gotten.
- Beautiful young people are acts of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
- There's so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
- You have only failed if you fail to try.
- If someone is too tired to give you a smile,
leave one of your own, because no one
needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
- We are judged by our actions, not our intentions.
We may have a heart of gold, but so does a hardboiled egg!
- Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.
- A friend is a person who knows
all about you but likes you anyway.
- No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
- Winners find reasons to ...
Losers find excuses not to.
- A hug is the body's battery re-charge
- Always remember, look forwards not back,
Believing in making your dreams all come true.
Always believe in the best you can be
And have faith in the things that you do.
- The trouble with opportunity is that
it only knocks. Temptation kicks the door in.
- It's attitude, not aptitude,
that affects your altitude.
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can do - begin it.
- Life is God's gift to you,
What you do with it is your gift to Him.
- Fear and guilt are unpleasant bedfellows who disturb our sleep.
- More children are punished for copying their parents,
than for disobeying them. We should be what we want to see.
- Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day,
begin it well and serenly and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
This day is all that is good and fair.
It is too dear with its hopes and
invitations to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
- No one ever collapsed under the burdens of a single day.
It is when the burdens of tomorrow are added to it that it becomes unbearable.
Live one day at a time-it's all that we have that is a certainty anyway.
- Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
- Faith will take us to the destination
God wants us to get to. We have a destiny.
- We can't live our life over again, but we can
really live up to our potential from this moment on.
- It's only the view from where you sit that makes you fear defeat,
But life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?
- You never realize how much you love something till its gone.
- Don't Re-Anything. Don't re-do, re-peat, re-cover,
re-finance - do it right the first time.
- A real friend is one who walks in when
the rest of the world walks out.
- The battery in a car works only because
it has a positive and a negative.
As parents we also must have the same balance and
be kind and loving, but also tough when it is necessary.
- To change family life -
Husbands love your wives,
Wives respect your husbands,
Children obey your parents.
- In our lives we each act,
evaluate, correct, then act again.
- Live today to the fullest.
Remember it's the first day of the rest of your life!
- There ain't no man can avoid being born average,
but there ain't no man got to be common.
- If you don't change direction,
you'll end up where you're going.
- If you don't have a test,
you won't have a testimony.
- Make changes with SNAPS
S-Specify the situation
N-Name your feelings
A-Ask for what you want to happen
P-Pay off - will be either positive or negative
S-So go for the positive result
- After all is said and done,
there is more said than done.
- If your dog plays checkers with you,
don't criticize his game,
just be glad he plays the game at all.
- When wealth is lost, nothing is lost.
When health is lost, something is lost.
When character is lost, everything is lost.
- May there always be a smile on your face and laughter in your heart.
- Love is not a feeling, it is a decision -
to do the very best we can for the other person.
- Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
- When we don't speak up about something through cowardice we must remember,
Silence is not always golden, sometimes it's just plain yellow.
- Be courageous and bold. When you look back on your life,
you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
- It takes as much time to wish as to plan.
- Be brave. Even if you're not,
pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
- Pain is inevitable but suffering is your own decision.
- The key is not to prioritize your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities.
Do the important things first - because
where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going.
- Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings.
- People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Yesterday is past - we cannot change it.
Tomorrow is the future - it is unknown.
But today is a gift - that's why it is called the present.
- There is a world out there waiting
for me - And I intend to conquer it.
- Of course I don't look as busy as the men,
I did it right the first time.
- Don't be someone to please everyone else,
but be someone to please yourself.
- If you have someone special in your life,
don't wait to start loving them.
Do not put it off for even one day.
Make the choice to love now.
Whoever loves you is only on loan from God,
and he or she could be taken from you at any moment.
- It's not our job to change other people -
it's our job to love them, while they change themselves.
- The more we co-operate,
the better we operate.
- Friends bring out the best in us that other
people don't look hard enough to find.
- When in danger of becoming too self-important remember
what the mother whale told her baby. "When you get to the top
and start to 'blow' that's when you get harpooned!"
- In an argument, retaliation leads to escalation.
- You have only one life, and it will soon be past,
and only what's done for God will last.
- Athletes are driven by commitment to their sport,
to themselves, to excellence itself.
Commitment fuels the extra mile, the final set,
the last quarter, the sprint to the line,
going on when the body begs to stop.
- There is no room for road-rage on the straight and narrow.
- Depression is frozen rage -
anger that has never been dealt with.
- Better Management.
Don't manage stress or nuisances - get rid of them.
- Skills are not copyright - they are transferable.
- Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
- Accentuate the positive,
Eliminate the negative,
Latch on to the affirmative,
And don't mess with Mister-In-Between.
- It is almost impossible to smile on the
outside without feeling better on the inside.
- A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
- No matter how old you are,
you are always somebody's child,
and if you are loved,
you are always in somebody's thoughts.
- A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart
and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
- When you sing
Don't worry about the sound you hear
Or you'll miss the music you could make.
- To be old and wise, you first have to be young and stupid.
- You can take the day off -
but you can't put it back on again.
- Here, you have the remote.
We're lost. Let's stop and ask for directions.
Why don't we go and see a romantic film for a change.
No, let me take out the rubbish.
I'll just separate the white clothes from the coloured ones.
Isn't it my turn to change the baby?
I'll turn off the rugby so we can talk.
- It is easy for others to put you down
when they are simply agreeing with you.
- Life is like a book.
You can't look at the beginning and the end and know what
it's all about. You have to live it all the way through.
- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
- Use the talents you possess;
For the woods would be very silent,
If no birds sang except for the very best.
- Man succeeds because he believes he can,
or he fails because he thinks he will.
- Triumph is the extra umph added to the try.
- Mothers are not paid for their work because it is priceless.
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses.
Learn new skills to achieve your goals in life.
- Live more simply, so that you can find
time to enjoy the little pleasures of life.
- A list of man's enemies is often a truer guide
to his character than a list of his friends.
- If you place a low value on yourself,
you can be sure the world will not overprice you.
- Conceit is a strange disease.
It makes everyone else sick except
the person who has it.
- A ship in a port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
- You don't have to know what to do.
You have to do what you know.
- Live every day as if it is your last -
and one day you'll be right.
- Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It's the way it is.
The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
- The positive thinker sees the invisible,
feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
- Often what we choose for our lives is
the choice for the next generation too.
- Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends,
tell me where to get more wax.
- It's not as hard to die for a friend
as it is to find a friend to die for.
- He who makes room in his heart for others,
will himself find accommodation everywhere.
- Love means the unconditional desire
for the eternal well-being of a soul.
- Heroes don't ask us to believe in them,
They teach us to believe in ourselves.
- Good management isn't about doing everything faster,
it's about not doing things you don't need to do.
- A challenge gives you the opportunity
to flex your spiritual muscles.
- A particular breed of dog may cost a lot of money,
But only love will make its tail wag.
- Don't worry about knowing people -
just make yourself worth knowing.
- What we get is what we expect.
- To love someone - is to love their potential into reality.
- Why are the words good-bye, I'm sorry,
and I love you so easy to pronounce but so hard to say?
- To be a star you must follow your own light,
follow your own path, and never fear the darkness,
for that is when the stars shine the brightest.
- Happiness is found along the way,
Not at the end of the road.
- Discover the power of praise -
it will make your world a better place.
- Ability & Attitude & Activity - Excuses = Success.
- Those who say a thing cannot be done should not
stand in the way of those who are doing it.
- If we are to progress we must go forwards,
not backwards. We can look backwards,
we can learn from backwards, but we must not go backwards.
- You can make your mind recall anything you want,
but it can only give back what it was first given.
- Your biggest challenge isn't someone else.
It's the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs,
and the voice inside you that yells "Can't",
but you don't listen. You just push harder.
And then you hear the voice whisper "can".
And you discover that the person you thought
you were is no match for the one you really are.
- Stop looking at yourself through your own eyes,
and see yourself through God's eyes.
- Teach children to use SPICE - and use it yourself.
S-Skill building.
P-Problem solving.
I-Imagination.
C-Communication.
E-Ego building.
- He who never walks except where he sees other men's tracks will make no discoveries.
- You cannot be a creator and a victim.
- You will not find what you do not live.
- It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not.