Motivation Quotes and Inspiration Sayings

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head
~Author : William Blake Famous Motivational Quotes

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
~Author : Mae West Inspirational Sayings

What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.
~Author : MichelGuillaume Jean de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer III What is an American Nice Quotes

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
~Author : Lyster Great Sayings

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
~Author : Robert Louis Stevenson Meaningful Sayings

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
~Author : Willa Cather Popular Motivational Sayings

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
~Author : Kurt Vonnegut Jr Wise Quotes

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
~Author : W H Auden Witty Sayings

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.
~Author : Mary O’Hare Dumas Motivational Sayings

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
~Author : Laurence J Peter Famous Quotes

I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
~Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Nice Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous Motivational Quotes

Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
~Author : Publilius Syrus Inspirational Sayings

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Nice Quotes

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
~Author : Chapman Cohen 18681954 Great Sayings

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
~Author : Sir Winston Churchill Meaningful Sayings

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
~Author : Pablo Picasso Popular Sayings

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are.
~Author : Nicholas Chamfort Wise Quotes

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
~Author : Confucius Witty Sayings

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.
~Author : T H White Famous Quotes

Anatomy is destiny.
~Author : Sigmund Freud Collected Writings 1924 Inspirational Sayings

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
~Author : Gary Zukav The Dancing Wu Li Masters Nice Quotes

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
~Author : George Bernard Shaw Great Sayings

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~Author : Russell Baker Meaningful Sayings

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
~Author : William Shakespeare Popular Sayings

If I love you, what business is it of yours
~Author : Johann von Goethe Wise Quotes

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
~Author : Chinese Proverb Witty Sayings

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
~Author : Laurie Anderson Motivational Sayings

I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches.
~Author : Gilda Radner Famous Quotes

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Author : Kimberly Johnson Inspirational Sayings

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
~Author : Charles Haddon Spurgeon Nice Quotes

It’s what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.
~Author : Kim Hubbard Famous Quotes

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
~Author : Clifton Fadiman Inspirational Sayings

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Nice Quotes

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Great Sayings

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God?s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.
~Author : George Washington Carver Meaningful Sayings

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
~Author : Joan Crawford Popular Sayings

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
~Author : R D Laing Wise Quotes

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
~Author : Barbara Ehrenreich Witty Sayings

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it.
~Author : Ogden Nash Motivational Sayings

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
~Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Famous Quotes

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
~Author : Eugene Ionesco Inspirational Sayings

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
~Author : Herbert Henry Asquith Nice Quotes

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.
~Author : Geoffrey Parsons Famous Quotes

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
~Author : Douglas Adams Inspirational Sayings

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage 1915 Nice Quotes

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
~Author : Denis Diderot Great Sayings

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
~Author : Ernest Hemingway Meaningful Sayings

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
~Author : Anon Popular Sayings

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
~Author : Christopher Darlington Morley Wise Quotes

Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.
~Author : Anon Witty Sayings

To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~Author : Ralph Emerson Motivational Sayings

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
~Author : Danish proverb Famous Quotes

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
~Author : Samuel Adams Inspirational Sayings

Luck is the residue of design.
~Author : Branch Rickey Nice Quotes

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.
~Author : Andrew Schneider Famous Quotes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Inspirational Sayings

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
~Author : Kilgore Trout Nice Quotes

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
~Author : HenriFr d ric Amiel Great Sayings

Isolation is a dream killer.
~Author : Barbara Sher Meaningful Sayings

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’.
~Author : William Shakespeare Popular Sayings

She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
~Author : Henry James Wise Quotes

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~Author : Cyril Connolly Witty Sayings

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
~Author : Hal Borland Motivational Sayings

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
~Author : Eric Butterworth Famous Quotes

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
~Author : Joseph Addison Inspirational Sayings

Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don’t cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing
~Author : Paul O’Neill Nice Quotes

In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
~Author : Alexander Pope Famous Quotes

[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.
~Author : Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment Inspirational Sayings

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
~Author : Robert Cecil Nice Quotes

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~Author : H L Mencken Great Sayings

I’m not judging people, I’m judging their actions. It’s the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.
~Author : Jeff Melvoin Meaningful Sayings

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.
~Author : Noel Coward Popular Sayings

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
~Author : Joseph Addison Wise Quotes

. . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer – say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them…
~Author : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Witty Sayings

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Motivational Sayings

Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
~Author : Howard Aiken Famous Quotes

You can’t choose the ways in which you’ll be tested.
~Author : Robert J Sawyer Inspirational Sayings

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
~Author : Stanislaw Lec Nice Quotes

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. ~Stephen Phillips

It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. ~Roseanne Barr

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. ~Jean Kerr, “Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall,” The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown

Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, “You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.” ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life. ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~T. Guillemets

The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more. ~Liza Ciano, co-owner and co-director of Yoga Vermont, yogavermont.com

The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. ~The Quote Garden

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. ~Carl Jung

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. ~Author Unknown

Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more. ~Patricia Walden

There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries. ~W.J. Cameron

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.
~Walter Scott

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time. ~Laura Ingalls Wilder

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. ~Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~Washington Irving

Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~Langston Coleman

It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned. ~Frank A. Clark

Luck never made a man wise. ~Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer. ~Author Unknown

I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don’t depend on it. ~Author Unknown

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
– Anonymous

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
– Theodore H. White

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
– Winston Churchill

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
– Soren Kierkegaard

“I am a big believer in the ‘mirror test’. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you’ve done your best.” — John McKay

“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” — Dr. Michael McGriffy

“I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content when I cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.” — Elizabeth Montagu

“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.” — J. Lubbock

# As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Josh Billings – 1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer

# Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck – 1927 American Author Humorist

# My definition of success is control.
Kenneth Branagh – 1960 British-born American Actor Director Producer Stage director

# A minutes success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning – 1812-1889 British Poet

# The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck – 1892-1973 American Novelist

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
- Max Lerner

“Spirit … has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.”
- Unknown

“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
- Liane Cardes

pacific sunset”If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”
- Herschel Walker

“Train, don’t strain.”
- Arthur Lydiard

“Number one is just to gain a passion for running. To love the morning, to love the trail, to love the pace on the track. And if some kid gets really good at it, that’s cool too.”
- Pat Tyson

“You would fain be victor at the Olympic games, you say. Yes, but weigh the conditions, weigh the consequences; then and then only, lay to your hand-if it be for your profit. You must live by rule, submit to diet, abstain from dainty meats, exercise your body perforce at stated hours, in heat or in cold; drink no cold water, nor, it may be, wine. In a word, you must surrender yourself wholly to your trainer, as though to a physician.”
- Epictetus, (c.A.D. 50-c.A.D. 138)