It's the beginning of the new year. I'm sure you all have New Year Resolutions. Here are these inspirational quotes I have collected. It's not until last year did I type them out and save it onto a disk. I want to share it with you.
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”- Author unknown
“It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I know I was onto something.”- Omette Coleman
“You win some and you lose some, and some get rained out, but you have to suit for them all.”- J. Askenberg
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.” – Ruth Benedict
“We either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
“Interest and attention will insure to you an education.” –Robert A. Millikan
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
“Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.” –Liz Smith
“Few minds wear out, more rust out.” Christian Nestell Bouce
“Nothing great was achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” -Jewish Proverb
“I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” –Edward Everett II
“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane ande the pessimist the parachute.” Gil Stern
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” Raymond Lindquist
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.” Alfred Sheinwold
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” Benjamin Franklin
“With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.” Edison Haines
“Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?” Author unknown
“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” Roy Disney
“We rely on cliches, we become clichés.”
“We must not be ensnared by our imagined limitations” Virginia Euver Wolff “True Believer”
“The more you do, the more options.”
“Be down when you lose, but not out. Go and show them what you’re all about.”
“Live life like a firecracker: Light up the sky and go out with a bang.”
“A challenge is worthwhile.”
“Opportunities will always surround you if you know where to look.”
Lessons hard learned, but education worth the effort.
You always miss the shots you never take.
Nothing’s impossible if you try.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is…to be continually fearful you will make one.
Don’t hate the playa- hate the game.
You stay on the ball/ You stay on the wall/ It’s your call/ If you stand of fall
“Cause you’re free to do what you want to do/ You’ve got to live your life and do what you want to do.” -“Free” by Utranate
You can’t start a fire without a spark
“Fear is a mind killer” –Movie “Dune”
“Good judgment comes from bad experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Alexander Pope, poet
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need. The remainder is needed by others.” Saint Augustine
“The divine test of a man’s worth is not his theology, but his life.” Morris Joseph, author
“Kindness in words create confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” LAO- TZU, founder of Taoism
“Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.” C.S. Lewis, author
“When troubles will come, they are always temporary- nothings lasts forever.” Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
“If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.” Swami Muktananda
“There must be a cooperation of all who believe in God, knowing that authentic religiousness- far from placing individuals and peoples in conflict with one another- rather pushes them together to build a world of peace.” Pope John Paul II
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Ghandi, Indian spiritual leader and nonviolence activist
“It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.” Tenzin Gyastso, the 14th Dalia Lama
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” Luciano de Crescenzo, author
“9 requisites for contented living
Health- enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth- enough to support your needs.
Strength- to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace- enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience- enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity- enough to see some good in your neighbor
Love- enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith- enough to make real the things of God.
Hope- enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”
-Johann Wolfgan von Goethe, philosopher and playwright
“Don not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.” Hebrews 13:2
“A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.” The Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is a sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song,
as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
“There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.”
“Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, ‘Wait. Let me see.’ And above all, you must be honest with yourself.”
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
“To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves…”
“I think the prime reason for existence for living in this world, is discovery.”
“The gratification comes in the doing, not the results.”
“I don’t want to be (just) the best. I want to grow so tall that nobody can reach me. Not to prove anything, but just to go where you ought to go when you devote your whole life and all you are to one thing.”
“If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.”
“Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.”
“An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer…”
“I also became close to nature, and am no able to appreciate the beauty with which the world is endowed.”
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run that outright exposure…life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Hellen Keller
“Love is always patient and kind, it is never jealous, is never boastful or conceited, it is never rude or selfish: it does not take offense, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.” 1 Corinthimas 13: 4-8
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” 9292
“It’s not about what we have, but what we enjoy.”
“To love is nothing…To be loved is something…To love and be loved is everything.”
“Don’t marry a person you can live with…marry someone you cannot live without.”
“Love. One word that frees of all the weight and pain in Life.”
“The friendship ball. A ball is a circle, no beginning, no end. It keeps us together like our Circle of Friends. But the treasure inside for you to see is the treasure of friendship you’ve granted to me. Today I pass the friendship ball to you.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
“Keep true to the dreams of the youth.” Johann von Schiller
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
“The stereotype not only saves time in a busy society, but tends to preserve us from all the bewildering effort of trying to see the world steadily and see it whole.” Walter Lippman
From a Starbucks coffee cup” “The Way I see it #17”
“The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you’re not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out, pursue any goal. Don’t take it personally when they say “no”- they may not be smart enough to say ‘yes.’” Keith Olbermann, brocast journalist
“Children are our most valuable resource.” Herbert Hoover (1874- 1964) 31st President of the United States
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin
“It takes a special person, with patience and wisdom to share, to unlock the treasure awaiting within children everywhere.” Joan Zatorski, educator
“Education must not simply teach work- it must teach life.” W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) Writer, Civil Rights Leader
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” Mother Theresa
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.” Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), Business man, writer
“I teach with my heart and my souls and not with my mouth alone.” James Escalante (1930-), educator
“Education is simply the soul of society as it passes from one generation to another.” G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), critic, writer
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), educator
“Knowledge- like the sky- is never private property…Teaching is the art of sharing.” Abraham Joshua Heschel, philosopher, educator
“After the verb ‘to love,’ ‘to help’ is the most beautiful verb in the world.” Bertha von Suther (1834 -1914), writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang von Goette (1749-1832), poet, playwright, philosopher
“Life affords no greater responsibility, no great privelge, than the raising the next generation.” C. Everett Koop (1916-), U.S. Sergeant General 1982-89
Quotes by Malcolm X:
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
"We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us."
"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."
"My alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
"Stumbling is not falling."
"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time."
“They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.”
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us."
"Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."
"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself."
"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action."
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
"I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!"
"The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it."
"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation."
"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country." -- February 19, 1965 (2 days before he was murdered by Nation of Islam followers)
"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."
"...I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did." -- on those he encouraged to follow Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad
"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom."
"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being."
"Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom."
"I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King." -- in a conversation with Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
"I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."
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