Inspirational & Motivational Quotes - Page 8

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry van Dyke

Very often a fight for what is right turns into a quarrel for what is left.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling.
- Stephen R. Covey

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind, blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes - unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

We are such little men when the stars come out.
- Herman Hagedorn

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.
- Anais Nin

We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.
- James Van Praagh

We live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand.
- Bill Bryson

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- George Orwell

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- Sydney Harris

When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow

When it's all over, it's not who you were...it's whether you made a difference.
- Robert Dole

When the only tool you have is a hammer...every problem appears to be a nail.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things, not the great occasions that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
- Bob Hope

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
- Billy Graham

When you cannot trust God, you cannot trust anything; and when you cannot trust anything, you get the condition of the world as it is today.
- Basil King

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times...it's the only time you've got.
- Art Buchwald

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
- Benjamin Franklin

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.
- George Santayana

Why is there never enough time to do it right... but always time to do it over?

Wisdom is made up of ten parts... nine of which are silence... the tenth, brevity.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

You always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Ghandi

You live and you learn. But sometimes...you learn and you forget!
- Grandpa Robasky

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretsky

You must do as well as you can whatever God gives you to do; that is the best possible preparation for what he may want you to do next.
- Thomas Chalmers

You must speak up to be heard, but sometimes you have to shut up to be appreciated.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty

Youth and beauty fade. Character endures forever.