Quotes and Saying About Giving

As Thanksgiving comes around the corner, we often think of giving thanks. (And maybe buying Christmas gifts too!) However, if we thought of giving and sharing throughout the year, it would make a world wonderful and friendliest place to live. Don’t you think?

Quotes About Giving

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
— Maya Angelou

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
— Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
— Author Unknown

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
— Flora Edwards

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
— Mother Teresa

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
— Frank A. Clark

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
— Nathaniel Branden

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not ‘to have and to hold’ but ‘to give and serve.”
— Sir Wilfred T. Grinfell

Only a powerful soul can offer love. Only a powerful soul can afford to be humble. If we are weak, then we become selfish. If we are empty, we take; but if we are filled, we automatically give to all. That is our nature.
– Dadi Prakashmani

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
— Robert A. Heinlein

Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever.
— Dr. Wil Rose

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.
— Peyton Conway March

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
— Benjamin Franklin

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
— Lao Tzu

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
— Disraeli

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.’ Hungry not only for bread — but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing — but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks — but homeless because of rejection.
— Mother Teresa

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
— Erich Fromm

Meaningful Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is something we only achieve with experience and age. Lucky for us, there are many wise men and women that came before us so we can listen and be inspire from them. Here are some meaningful and uplifting Wisdom Quotes.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller

Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
— Grace Hansen

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
— Lady Dorothy Nevill

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.
— Ruth Gordon

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
— Goethe

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
— Fredrick Koeing

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.
— Thich Nhat Hahn

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
— Barbara Bush

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
— Groucho Marx

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
–Kahlil Gibran

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
— Dalai Lama

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
— Dale Carnegie

 

Dalai Lama Instructions For Life

The Dalai Lama’s Instructions for Life

Dalai Lama has said these motivational and inspirational quotes and instructions for life. Here are these wise sayings from spiritual person’s to inspire us to be better human beings.

  1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  3. Follow the three R’s:- Respect for self. – Respect for others.- Responsibility for all of your actions.
  4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
  5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
  6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
  7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
  8. Spend some time alone every day.
  9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
  10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
  12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
  13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
  14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
  15. Be gentle with the earth.
  16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
  17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
  18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
  19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

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Inspirational Finding Peace In Busy World Quotes

This post is repost. It was original posted on Jan 2011 here on Motivational Quotes HeadQuarters Site.

Many of our life can be chaotic and stressful at the time. There is a saying: “when it rains, it pours!” and “Misery Loves company”. I am having share of my life issues at the moment that I feel overwhelm despite trying to live calm and simple life. I am sure many of us, have been in situation like this once in our life, sometimes more. I have written about finding ways out of overwhelm and simplifying life before.

Today I want to share how to find peace, with noise and chaos around us and still function. While, I am going through this phase, these quotes have helped me and inspired me and I am sure it will inspire and motivate you as well. We can not change certain aspects of our life but we can change our attitude towards it for positive and upbeat outlook!

You may also like 5 peace books everyone should read once.

Resource Books to Find Peace in Your Life:

Finding Peace By Jean Vanier: One of our deepest human desires and needs is to live in peace. We all yearn for peace, but what is it exactly? How do we find it, and how can we bring peace to our lives and our communities? Jean Vanier reflects on recent world events, identifying the sources of conflict and fear within and among individuals, communities, and nations that thwart us in our quest for peace.

21 Ways to Finding Peace and Happiness: Overcoming Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment Every Day by Joyce Meyer: In today’s world, peace is hard to come by. When personal desires are followed, serenity is forfeited. By submitting one’s life to God, a peace-filled life is ensured.

A smile is the beginning of peace.
– Mother Teresa

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

End each day with thoughts of peace.  Begin each day with
thoughts of peace.  Continue thinking thoughts of peace
throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by
which we arrive at that goal.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we are present in each moment, the past gently rolls up
behind us and the future slowly unravels before us.
– Rev Richard Levy

Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.
– Stephen C. Paul

Life is lived in the present.  Yesterday is gone.  Tomorrow is
yet to be.  Today is the miracle.

The quieter you become the more you can hear.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with
the world.
– Marcus Aurelius

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread
beyond all boundaries into blissful, peaceful happiness.

Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all.
– Earl Balfour

Our life is frittered away by detail . . . simplify, simplify.
– Henry David Thoreau

Seize every day as an adventure and your spirit will soar when
you discover the wonderful surprises life has to offer.

True peace is found in this moment. Acceptance is the 1st step
to inner calm.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe it.
And it isn’t enough to to believe in it, one must work for it.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
wise long for a state of tranquility.
– Swami Rama

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.
– Leo Tolstoy

Don’t fill your time with worry – fix what you can and let the
rest take care of itself.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with
themselves.
– William Hazlett

In acceptance, there is peace.

Satisfaction can be found in the simplest tasks.

Make the most of every moment.

Honor the past.
Live in the present.
Create the future.

The thief of the past and the thief of the future, rob us of the joy
of the peace of the present moment.

Peace of mind is attained not by ignoring problems, but by
solving them.
– Raymond Hull

Relaxation comes from letting go of tense thoughts.
– Frances Wilshire

There is time for everything. – Thomas Edison

The past is history. The future is a mystery and this moment is
a gift. That is why this moment is called “the present”.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today
of its strength.
– Corrie Ten Boom

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore
it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
– John Cage

A soft voice is the sound of peace.

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Success Quotes: Lifting Up Quotes For Finding Success

Here are some quotes by famous and wise folks of our life about finding success. Inspirational and motivational quotes to lift up your spirit and make you steps closer to achieve success in your life.

“Hitch your wagon to a star”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
~ MAHATMA GANDHI

“The world will not change until we do”
~ JIM WALLIS

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard.. But must be felt with the heart.”

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” Sidney Lovett

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Louis L’Amour

“Follow your bliss”
— JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is,
is the only way of being happy.”
– JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL

“The only reward of virtue is virtue.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too”
— ANNE FRANK

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
— MARK TWAIN

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection”
— LAWRENCE DURRELL

“A good travel agent is worth more than a good lawyer . . . .”

“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.”
— SUZE ORMAN

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful”
— ANNETTE FUNICELLO

“Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
— CORITA KENT

” Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better”
— EMILE COUÉ

“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year . . .
Today should always be our most wonderful day.”
— THOMAS DREIER

“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure
is what is right here and right now. Don’t miss it.”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“When we are no longer able to change a situation… We are challenged to change ourselves”
~ VIKTOR FRANKL

“Be here now!”
— RAM DAS

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”
— ANNIE DILLARD

“This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”
— CHARLES DEDERICH

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.!”
— JAMES A .MICHENER

“Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Giving opens the way to receiving”
— FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN

” Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons”
— RUTH ANN SCHABACKER

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
— GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

“Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.”
— UNKNOWN

“Your love is better than ice cream”
— SARAH MCLACHLAN

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
— CARL SAGAN

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
— MARY ENGELBREIT

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“We are often so caught up in our destination That we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.”
– AUTHOR UNKNOWN

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more”
— LORD BYRON

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“The best way to predict the future is to create it!”
— JASON KAUFMANN

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake.”
— MARIE BEYON RAY

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
– MICHAEL J. FOX

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Over All the Sky – The Sky! Far, Far out of Reach. Studded with the Eternal Stars.”
– WALT WHITMAN

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind.
The third is to be kind.”
– HENRY JAMES

“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.
Then never, never, never give up.”
– NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

What’s the best thing that happened to you today?”
– AMANDA GORE

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead.”
— LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst a spark that creates extraordinary results.”
— UNKNOWN

“The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– HENRY MILLER

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
– BENJAMIN DISRAELI

“Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.”
— GRANDMA MOSES

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to move.”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“Life is too short to fly coach!”
– DALE IRVIN

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— ANONYMOUS

“Not all those who wander are lost”
— J.R.R. Tolkein

How to Manage your Time: Quotes about Time Mangaement

Managing time efficiently is one of the issue with many of us, here are some great inspirational quotes to make us want to manage our time better and live the best life with our loved ones.

Never let yesterday use up today. -Richard H. Nelson

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.– W. Somerset Maugham

It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. -Marcia Wieder

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! -Anthony Robbins

If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
-Lee Iacocca

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? -Henry David Thoreau

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. –Lord Chesterfield

You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. -Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. -Author Unknown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. -Thomas Jefferson

Make use of time, let not advantage slip. –William Shakespeare

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. –William Penn

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. –Shoppenhauer

Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
-Alan Lakein

Time is the wisest counselor of all. –Pericles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. –Delmore Schwartz

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -Rodin

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. -William Shakespeare

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. -Aeschylus

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.
-Sir John Lubbock

I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
-Louis E. Boone

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. -Jean De La Bruyere

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.”
-Franklin Field

A year from now you will wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. -Leo Kennedy

While we are postponing, life speeds by. -Seneca

You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin

Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today. -Benjamin Franklin

Histories make men wise. -Francis Bacon

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.
-Sara Paddison

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. -Carl Sandburg

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace Quotes

Here are some quotes about peace, finding peace in our life.

Let us love the world to peace.  ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. –Indira Gandhi

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. – James Conrad

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.-Lao Tse

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. –Vera Brittain

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? – J. Ramsay MacDonald

A smile is the beginning of peace. – Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. –Albert Einstein

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~Dwight Eisenhower

End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with
thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace
throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours. –Unknown

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. –Buddha

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.- Mohandas Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. –Mother Teresa

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. -Winston Churchill

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. –Abraham Lincoln

A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

I would rather have peace in the world than be President. –Harry S. Truman

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. –Robert A. Heinlein

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J.Ramsay MacDonald

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. –Chanakya

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. –Ulysses S. Grant

True peace is found in this moment. Acceptance is the 1st step to inner calm. –Unknown

Let loose of what you can’t control. Serenity will be yours. – Unknown

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
wise long for a state of tranquility. – Swami Rama

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame –Nikki Giovanni

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with
the world. – Marcus Aurelius

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. –Andrew Jackson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. –George C. Marshall

Motivational Quotes to Inspire you

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe -Latin Proverb

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind. -Unknown

The best way out is always through.Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave. – Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. – Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost. -Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls. -Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake. – Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. -Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose–
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Shelley

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash. -George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. -St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Inspirational & Motivational Quotes: Possibly the best way to start your day (Volume 1)

DailyOM: Inspirational Thoughts for a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Day