Inspirational famous quotes
05-25-2025
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
-- A. A. Milne -
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
-- A. A. Milne -
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
-- A. A. Milne -
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
-- A. A. Milne -
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
-- A. A. Milne -
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
-- A. A. Milne -
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
-- A. A. Milne -
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-- A. C. Benson -
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
-- A. C. Benson -
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
-- A. H. Almaas -
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
-- Aaron Copland -
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
-- Aaron Siskind -
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.
-- Abdul Kalam -
You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
-- Abdul Kalam -
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
-- Abdul Kalam -
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
-- Aberjhani -
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
-- Aberjhani -
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
-- Aberjhani -
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
All I have learned, I learned from books.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
-- Abraham Maslow -
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
-- Adam Ant -
Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
-- Adam Savage -
Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
-- Adam West -
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
-- Addison Mizner -
I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
-- Adele -
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed
-- Adolf Hitler -
if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
-- Adolf Hitler
