Motivational famous quotes
04-17-2025
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
-- 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 -
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
-- A. C. Benson -
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
-- A. E. Hotchner -
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
-- A.J. Cronin -
If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
-- Aberjhani -
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
-- 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 -
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 -
Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
-- Abraham Flexner -
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 -
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
-- 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 -
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 -
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
-- 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 -
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
-- 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 -
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- 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 -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
-- 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 can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
-- Abraham Verghese -
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
-- Adam Smith -
Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.
-- Adam Yauch -
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
-- Adolph Rupp -
There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.
-- Adora Svitak -
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
-- Aesop -
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
-- Aesop -
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
-- Al Franken -
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
-- Alain Prost -
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
-- Alan Alda -
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
-- Alan Watts -
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
-- Alan Watts -
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
-- Albert Brooks -
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
-- Albert Camus -
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
-- Albert Camus -
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein -
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
-- Albert Einstein -
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
-- Albert Einstein -
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein -
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
-- Albert Einstein -
The world we have created is a product of our thinking.
-- Albert Einstein -
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein -
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
-- Albert Einstein -
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-- Albert Einstein -
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
-- Albert Einstein -
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
-- Albert Einstein -
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
-- Albert Einstein -
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
-- Albert Einstein -
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
-- Albert Einstein -
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
-- Albert Einstein -
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
-- Albert Einstein -
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
-- Albert Einstein -
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
-- Albert Einstein -
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
-- Albert Einstein -
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-- Albert Einstein -
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
-- Albert Einstein -
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
-- Albert Einstein -
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein -
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
-- Albert Einstein -
I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
-- Albert Einstein -
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein -
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
-- Albert Einstein
