inspirational words for today
inspirational words for today
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
~quotes about Prejudice by William Hazlitt
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
~quote on Violence by Henry C. Wright, The Liberator, 7 April 1837
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
~saying on Marriage by Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
~quotation on Human Rights by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
~inspirational words for today by Robert Louis Stevenson
If you are cold, tea will warm you. If you are too heated, it will cool you. If you are depressed, it will cheer you. If you are excited, it will calm you.
~sayings about wordstoday by Gladstone, 1865
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
~quotes about Humorous by Saul Bellow
Don’t accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are as strange as hell.
~quote on Men by Robin Morgan
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
~saying on Vanity by Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898
Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
~quotation on Television by Alfred Hitchcock
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?
~inspirational words for today by John W. Draper, 1811-1882, U.S. chemist
The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
~sayings about wordstoday by G.K. Chesterton
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
~quotes about Reality by Norman Douglas
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~quote on Teachers by Horace Mann
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
~saying on Love by Paul-Jean Toulet
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
~quotation on Psychology by G.K. Chesterton, London Observer, 9 December 1934
Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it’s very hard to make a home for any man if he’s always in it.
~inspirational words for today by Winifred Kirkland
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~sayings about wordstoday by Maori Proverb
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
~quotes about Government by Reinhold Niebuhr
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,… of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political.
~quote on Freedom by Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
~saying on Science by Robert Quillen
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter?
~quotation on Nature by Kotomichi
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
~inspirational words for today by Nelson DeMille
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.
~sayings about wordstoday by Rynn Berry
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~quotes about Fathers by Enid Bagnold
All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy - the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team.
~quote on Sports by Rodney Marsh, 1979
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt.
~saying on Art by Odilon Redon
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
~quotation on Kindness by Thomas Fuller
I guess cows aren’t into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.
~inspirational words for today by Anthony Clark
Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.
~sayings about wordstoday by Dave Barry
You know you’re an Arizona native when you think Taco Bell is the local phone company.
~quotes about Arizona by Emma Louise Philabaum, quoted in You Know You’re an Arizona Native, When… compiled by Don Dedera,
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~quote on Human Rights by Abraham Lincoln
Art is pictures straight from the heart.
~saying on Art by Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
~quotation on Mothers by Spanish Proverb
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.
~inspirational words for today by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
~sayings about wordstoday by Charles Caleb Colton
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
~quotes about Kisses by Helen Rowland
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
~quote on Patriotism by George Bernard Shaw
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,… thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.
~saying on Tea by Colley Cibber, Lady’s Last Stake
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