Inspirational Quotes by zzmbrashear (short novels to read .txt) 📕

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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement. 
William Arthur Ward

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do. 
Wilferd A. Peterson

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. 
Kahlil Gibran

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. 
Benjamin Franklin

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. 
Bill Cosby

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. 
Andrew Carnegie

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. 
Alexander Hamilton

With our love, we could save the world. 
George Harrison

I never found the companion that was so companioinable as solitude. 
Henry David Thoreau


Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. 
Calvin Coolidge

May you live every day of your life. 
Jonathan Swift

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 
Eleanor Roosevelt

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on. 
Margaret Mead

Life is about timing. 
Carl Lewis

Without tact you can learn nothing. 
Benjamin Disraeli

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. 
Charles F. Kettering

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 
Anais Nin

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live. 
Arthur Miller
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. 
Charles Dickens
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 
Thomas Edison

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. 
Andrew Carnegie

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside... 
Edgar Guest

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. 
G. K. Chesterton

Yes we can.
Barach Obama

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Charles Schulz

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar

Savor your passion, then share it.
Quinn, Greg Henry. 365 Meditations for Teachers. Scholastic Inc., 1995.

Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.
Peterson, Wilferd. The Art of Living. Simon and Schuster, 1961, p. 15.

Reflect before you act.
Mulan. Add a Little Magic. Disney Press, 1999.

What you perceive is up to you.
Bach, Richard. Messiah's Handbook. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 2004.

If you have nothing positive to add, be silent. Say nothing.
Fillmore, Cathleen. Winter 2010. "Behind the Curtain." Motivated Magazine. p. 18.

Don't let weeds grow around your dreams.
Brown, H. Jackson. Life's Little Instruction Book, Volume II. Rutledge Hill Press, 1993.

There is no limit to what can be accomplished with Enthusiasm.
Cypert, Samuel. Believe and Achieve. Avon Books, 1991, pg. 93.

I'm not discouraged by a challenge; it actually fuels me.
Glavin, April. 2011. "Lean Green Dream." Progress. Vol. 18, No. 01, p. 13.


There is no better school than adversity.
Mandino, Og. The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II. Bantam Books, 1988, p. 111.

Goals let you design your future.
Pulsifer, Catherine. Wings for Goals. Anncath-Roby Books, 1998, p. 16.

The world is simply a reflection of your mind.
Fisher, Mark. The Millionaire's Secrets. Simon and Schuster, 1996, p. 79.

Believe you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.
Richards, Shadonna. A Gift of Hope. Infinity Publishing, 2008, p. 23.

Strive to be specific rather than vague, candid rather than guarded.
Pritchett, Price and Pound, Ron. Business as UnUsual. Pritchett, LP. 2009, p. 19.

Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth.
Albom, Mitch. tuesdays with Morrie. Doubleday, 1997, p. 118.

This too shall pass. Good or bad, things always change. It's life way.
Blanton, Becky. 2010 Summer. "Hope Always Survives." Motivated Magazine. p. 22.

What we project, we get back.
Clark, Tony. thinkUcan. AuthorHouse UK Ltd, 2007, p. 51.

The gifts of things are never so precious as the gifts of thought.
Peterson, Wilferd. The Art of Living Treasure Chest. Simon and Schuster, 1977, p. 10.

We are creatures of habit. But any habit once learned can be changed.
Helmstetter, Shad. What To Say When You Talk To Your Self. Grindle Tress, 1986, p. 140.

I will persist until I succeed.
Mandino, Og. The Greatest Salesman in the World. Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc., 1968, p. 67.

Better a little caution than a great regret.
Clason, George. The Richest Man in Babylon. Signet, 1955, p. 85.

It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have.
Byrne, Rhonda. the Secret Atria Books, 2006, p. 77.

When you have a negative though say, "Cancel, cancel."
Moraja, Melissa Perry. Empower Your Soul. iUniverse, 2007, p. 88.

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. 
English Proverb

A man is as old as he feels himself to be. 
English Proverb

Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. 
English Proverb

Great talkers are little doers. 
English Proverb

Better late than never. 
English Proverb

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm. 
English Proverb

"The best remedy for those who are
afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,
somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is
as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy,
amidst the simple beauty of nature."
Anne Frank

"Birth, life, and death -
each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."
Toni Morrison

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often - why I bother to get up in the mornings."
Richard Dawkins

"The happiest man is he who learns from
nature the lesson of worship."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen,
among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."
Rachel Carson

"We must go out and re-ally ourselves to Nature every day.
We must make root, send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day."
Henry David Thoreau

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon

"Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms and
bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and
rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep
fleeing from a ferocious wolf."
Kahlil Gibran

"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold."
Robert Frost

"All art is but imitation of nature."
Seneca

"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery
that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and
fills it with noble inclinations."
Washington Irving

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
William Shakespeare

"Nature is the living, visible garment of God."
Johnan Wolfgang von Goethe

"Go forth, under the open sky,
and listen to Nature's teachings."
William Cullen Bryant

"The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which
the sun and the moon keep their dairy."
Alfred Kreymborg

"For in the true nature of things,
if we will rightly consider, every green tree is
far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
Martin Luther King

"Nothing is more beautiful than
the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."
Geroge Washington Carver

"Nature is painting for us, day by day,
pictures of infinite beauty if only we
have eyes to see them."
John Ruskin

"Silently, one by one, in the
infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Edison

One of the most satisfying experiences in life is a deep appreciation of Nature.
Dorothea Kopplin, Something to Live By

Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.
Emmet Fox, Make Your Life Worth While

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" Benjamin Disraeli

"He that cannot obey, cannot command." Benjamin Franklin

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. Peter F. Drucker

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. Arnold H. Glasgow

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself." Eleanor Roosevelt

Leaders don't create followers, they create more