Do you know any great, inspiring quotes?

Question

(appropriate)

Answer 1

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
(Gandhi)

That's one of my favorites, I'm not sure if it's inspirational.

Answer 2

•Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

•Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

•When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.

•A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

•A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

•A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

•If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
•If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
•If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.



All of these quotes was said by Bruce Lee,a philosopher and martial artist

Answer 3

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us
Author: Helen Keller,

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater
Author: Albert Einstein

Quote: You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
Author: Anonymous

Quote: Murphy's Laws (as posted in Arizona Humor) Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think Murphy's Third Law: In any field of endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's Fourth Law: If there is a possibility that several things can go wrong, then the one that will cause the greatest damage will be the one to go wrong Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything absolutely can NOT go wrong, it will anyway. Murphy's Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse Murphy's Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Murphy's Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Author: Murphy's Law's

Answer 4

Here are a few of my all time favorites .....

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
-- George Washington Carver

"Ad Astra per Aspera" (A Rough Road Leads to the Stars)
-- A saying inscribed on the site of the Apollo 1 disaster.

"Strive to Live a Life Less Ordinary."
-- Greg Sheeley

Answer 5

Depending on your context,

For setting new goals for the year, use the link in the source.

For speeches, use the internet and do a google search on quotations to find information in context like weddings speeches. etc/

Answer 6

Nobody is great at everything, but everybody is great at something... My brother said this to me, years ago, and I'll always remember it, not sure if that came from his own thoughts, or someone else, but I always liked it... and have used it with my own kids.

Answer 7

Character is built by postponement of gratification.
A ship is safe in the harbor - it also will never see it's true purpose.
Carpe Diem

Answer 8

"some people are born great, some people achieve greatness, others have greatness bestowed upon them"- William Shekespear

Answer 9

"All intellectual improvement arises from leisure; all leisure arises from one working for another".
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English poet, essayist, dramatist and pioneering lexicographer

Answer 10

How about: "Live each day as though it were your last. Tomorrow is promised to no man'?