Category: Motivational quotes

“The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.”

“Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.”

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”

“Be a fountain, not a drain.”

“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato – the best part under ground.”

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”

“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your …

“Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.”

“We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.”

“Examine what is said, not him who speaks.”

“Acting like someone you’re not is exactly what it takes to realize you’re capable of more than you ever knew.”

“Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.”

“We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.”

“The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.”

“Hold a true friend with both hands.”

“She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if …

“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”

“When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst …

“Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree – they bear no fruit.”

“It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”

“Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing – peace is the measure.”

“Touch your customer, and you’re halfway there.”

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”

“Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else’s.”

“Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.”

“I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.”

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can …

“Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.”

“If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”

“It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.”

“Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.”

“Death comes to all/ But great achievements raise a monument/ Which shall endure until the sun grows old.”

“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.”

“To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”

“Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.”

“Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.”

“Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.”