Inspirational Stories

Quotable Quotes
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
Plato
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
John Stuart Mill
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.
Tommy John
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.
O. A. Battista
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Vince Gill
You can make your world so much larger simply by acknowledging everyone else's.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
Joseph Sobran
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Al Bernstein
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George Sheeban
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith
Love is what's left in a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
Cullen Hightower
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
Jimmy Johnson
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Mark Yost
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.
Danish proverb
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Larry McMurtry
Money changes people just as often as it changes hands.
Al Batt
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes
A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Abigail Van Buren
Use soft words and hard arguments.
English proverb
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
Many things are lost for want of asking.
English proverb
Nothing can keep an argument going like two persons who aren't sure what they're arguing about.
O. A. Battista
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Al Bernstein
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
Catherine Deneuve
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
Danish proverb
Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
Henry David Thoreau



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