Inspirational & Motivational Quotes - Page 7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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

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

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