Inspirational & Motivational Quotes: K-O

Keep away from angry, short-tempered men, lest you learn to be like them and endanger your soul.
- Proverbs 22:24-25

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
- William Russell

Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life can only be understood backward. It must be lived forward.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life is a bit like a piece of fruit. When you take a big bite out of it, if you can just spit out the seeds without obsessing about how they've ruined the experience for you...you'll find that there's a lot of delightful juice left in there for you to suck out and a whole lot left to chew on.
- Chuck Brown

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.
- Harold B. Melchart

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God... never so great as when he humbles himself before God. And the man who kneels to God can stand up to anything.
- Louis H. Evans

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
- Dame Freya Madeleine Stark

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard

Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas A. Edison

Many people die with their music still in them. Too often is it because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men are only as great as they are kind.
- Elbert Hubbard

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal

Most of us like a person who comes right out and says what he think...especially when he think what we think.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Nearly all men can stand adversity...but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- Nick Diamos

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
- E.H. Chapin

Never miss a good chance to shut up.
- Will Rogers

Ninety-five percent of the people who died today had expected to live a lot longer.
- Albert M. Wells, Jr.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No person has ever been honored for what he has received; always, for what he has given.

No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T. Washington

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
- Chuck Swindoll

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
- Dinah Craik