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Thursday 15 September 2011

Inspirational Quotes




“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.  The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
Chinese Proverb

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the
dark with a mosquito.”
Betty Reese

”The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes with which to behold them."
Marcel Proust

”The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
Linus Pauling

“Tell me I'll forget, show me, I may remember, but involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese Proverb

”Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
St. Francis of Assisi

”The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy
lies in having no goal to reach.”
Benjamin Mays

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
Nelson Mandela

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” 
Agnes Repplier

“If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
Anonymous

“The definition of a bore: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
Ambrose Bierce

”To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
Johann von Goethe

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
Soren Kierkegaard 

”Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it “
Henry David Thoreau

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”
Kahlil Gibran

”Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
Carl Jung

”Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

”Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

”I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson

”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi 

”Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde

”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein 

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