Inspirational & Motivational Quotes - Page 3

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even fools are thought to be wise when they are silent. When they keep their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
- Proverbs 17:28

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude-Adrien Helvetius

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Few things are more dangerous to a person's integrity than having nothing to do, and plenty of time in which to do it.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.
- Philippians 4:8

Finish each 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 serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd...and never well mended.
- Benjamin Franklin

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
- T.S. Eliot

Handling criticism: if it's untrue, disregard it. If it's unfair, keep from irritation. If it's ignorant, smile. If it's justified, learn from it.

Happiness exists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldome to man in the course of his life.
- Benjamin Franklin

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
- Andrew Carnegie

He who talks without thinking runs more risks than he who thinks without talking.

He who thinks twice before saying nothing is wise.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
- Tom Brokaw

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham