Inspirational & Motivational Quotes: T

Tact is: Changing the subject, without changing your mind.

Taking first things first often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open.
- Arnold Glasow

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
– Beatrix Potter

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
- Abigail van Buren

The child who is being raised 'by the book' is probably a first edition.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker

The difference between an unsuccessful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Charles Spurgeon

The formula for a successful relationship is simple: Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

The further you are from God the more important the praise of others becomes.
- Dennis McCallum

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis

The great human dogma is that the wind moves the trees. The great human heresy is that the trees move the wind.
- G.K. Chesterton

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Molière

The greatest ideas are often met with violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
- Julius Charles Hare

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
- Junius

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
– Albert Einstein

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his power.
- Earl Nightingale

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William A. Ward

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Theodore Hesburgh

The most successful people in life are those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The only thing a player can control at golf is his own game; so concern about what other competitors may or may not be doing is both a useless distraction and a waste of energy.
- Jack Nicklaus

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
- L. Thomas Holdcroft

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the one doing it.

The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
- Theodore Rubin

The professional politician can sympathize with the professional advertiser. Both must resign themselves to a low public estimation of their veracity and sincerity.
- Enoch Powell

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
- Japanese Proverb

The secret is this: Strength lies solely in tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

The soul is healed by being with children.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon...but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Origin Unknown

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

The way to get started is to quit talking and being doing.
- Walt Disney

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
- Admiral James B. Stockdale

There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.
- Steven J. Ross

There are three times when you should never say anything important to a person: when he is tired, when he is angry, and when he has just made a mistake.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- John Adams

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way".
- C.S. Lewis

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
- Seneca

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
- French Proverb

"There is no use trying," said Alice, "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll

There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by an ugly gang of facts.
- Benjamin Franklin

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers

There's nothing wrong with drinking like a fish...providing you drink what a fish drinks.

They say there are two important days in a your life: the day you were born, and the day you find out why you were born.
- Carl Townsend

This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- which you can never afford to lose -- with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
- Admiral James B. Stockdale

Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.
- Michel Houellebecq

Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn Vos Savant

To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
- Cicero

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
– Osho

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else...means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
- E.E. Cummings

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
- Louis L'Amour

To err is human. To forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope

To love is to be vulnerable.
- C.S. Lewis

To love someone is to seek his or her best and highest good.

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying: "Your end of the boat is sinking."
- Hugh Downs

To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
- Ansel Adams

Today, alas, without heroes, we must make do with celebrities.
- George Lois

Troubles are tools by which God fashions us for better things.
- Henry Ward Beecher

True love will find an outlet in service.
- Billy Graham

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.
- Sidney Powell

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain