Sunday, February 28, 2010

Inspirational Quotes (Part 3)

It's the end of Feb. and your New Year's resolutions have been broken or have not been achieved yet. Well here are some inspirational quotes to get you going.

“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

“If you’re good at something, never do it free.” – The Joker in The Dark Knight

“Whenever you fall, pick something up.”-Oswald Avery

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but the seeds you plant.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” –Robert Collier

“By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.” –Socrates

“Enjoy all you have while pursuing all you want.”- Jim Rohn

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” –Ghandi

“The road to success is always under construction.”- Arthur Martinez

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” –Anne Frank

“A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.” – Hans Hofmann

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir

“A home cannot be truly beautiful unless it functions in harmony with who we are.” – Clodagh

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.- Hart Crane

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.” Jules Renard

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
"Those who know others are intelligent;
“Those who know themselves are truly wise."
- Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching

“There is no perfect timing for anything unless you create it.” -Psychic Miki (from the newspaper 24)

“We cannot bring the past back to life in the future.” –Psychic Miki

“Procrastination can cause us to miss out on great opportunities.” –Psychic Miki

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gough

“Through the arts, people learn creativity innovation.” Raymond Nasher

“I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.” –Mary Oliver

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.” -Dee Hock

“A different language is a different vision of life.” –Federico Fellini

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” –Rainer Maria Rilke

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

"Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to there limitations again."

"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. - Chazz Palmienteri

"Win by patience, not by pursuing." –The TV show Black Sash "Performance is always the best path to achieving your goal." –The TV show Black Sash

“Character: adversity does not build character, it reveals it.”

“Attitude: The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” –William James

“To live a purposeful life is to live a life with purpose.”

“Man must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of your life is a miracle and a mystery.” –HG Wells

“In the quietest water swims the ugliest fish.”-Helen Alfredsson (Swedish LPGA star)

“Failure has nothing to do with size, it has to do with leadership.”-Michael Beer, business professor at Harvard University

“There’s no substitute for guts.”- Bear Bryant

“Winning isn’t everything. But wanting to is.”-Arnold Palmer

“If you’re afraid of losing, than you dare not win.” –Bjorn Borg

“The more I practice, the luckier I become!”-Gary Player

“Stories have heart, champions have talent.”-National Post

“It’s easy to do anything in victory. It’s in defeat that a man reveals himself.”-Floyd Patterson

“You can learn little from victory. You can earn everything from defeat.” –Christy Matthewson

“What you do matters. All you need is to do it.”-Judy Grahn

“I shall never fear evil, because I am evil.”-Anonymous

“Courage is a sleeping lion within that awakens when we call.”-Psychic Miki

“Peace in life is found only after you create peace within yourself.” -Psychic Miki

“When making choices be sure they are yours and not the desires of others.” -Psychic Miki

“A warm smile will take you places you will never believe. Smiles and laughter cost nothing, whereas anger and fear can cost you everything.”

“It doesn’t matter how many challenges you face, but how you rise above them.” –Psychic Miki

“When we challenge ourselves, the success that follows is sweet.” -Psychic Miki

“Anything’s possible, when you speak from the heart.” – the TV show Heartland

“Life isn’t about what you achieve, but what you overcome.” –Tiger Woods

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