i'm putting a little something together wondering if anybody has any quotes/poetry/lyrics/proverbs that are inspirational either in general, or to you personally. please state the author too. thanks! =)
2006-07-29 13:12:06 · 10 answers · asked by Kismet 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."- Walt Whitman
2006-07-29 13:28:14 · answer #1 · answered by Morgan 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would flee far away and stay in the desert; I would hurry to my place of shelter far from the tiempest and storm. Psalms 55:7-8
He lies in wait like a lion in cover; he lies in wait to catch the helpless and drags them off his net. His victims are crushed and they collaspe; they fall under his strength. Psalms 10:9-10
The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
personally...i think the Bible is a good source of inspirational quotes
2006-07-29 13:45:44 · answer #2 · answered by hanaa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hatreds do not ever cease in this world
by hating, but by love; this is an eternal truth.
Overcome anger by love, overcome evil by good.
Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth.
2006-07-29 13:23:06 · answer #3 · answered by Barney Hill 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Living simply is often the price one pays for choosing to be different.
- bell hooks
God gives food to every bird, but does not throw it into the nest.
- russian proverb
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understoood.
- C.G. Jung
2006-07-29 13:17:03 · answer #4 · answered by jarm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could lead a horse to water yet you could no longer make him drink. or with a view to have peace, you need to prepare for conflict or life is a like a bottle of tabasco, what you do in the present day would burn you the next day
2016-11-03 06:50:15 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heat not a furnace so hot for a foe that it doth burn yourself ( Shakespeare )
Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for a friend ( Jesus )
2006-07-29 13:22:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strength of the wolf is the pack. Strength of the pack is the wolf. When you think about this it very much applies to family.
2006-07-29 13:31:17 · answer #7 · answered by us citizen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the author, but it is, don't judge a man until you walk a mile in his moccasins.
2006-07-29 13:18:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Everything is for the best in all possible worlds"
Voltaire 1694-1778
2006-07-29 13:21:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strange question man ;)
2006-07-30 10:24:20 · answer #10 · answered by Bogdan Bokor 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋