304 Inspirational Quotes (Part II)
181. "Fools look to tomorrow; wise people use tonight."Click to tweet
182. "One does not make friends . One recognizes them." (Garth Henrichs) Click to tweet
183. "Have patience. In time, even grass becomes milk."Click to tweet
184. "Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
185. "A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it." (German Proverb) Click to tweet
186. "May the hand of a friend always be near to you." (Irish Blessing) Click to tweet
187. "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." (Charles Kettering) Click to tweet
188. "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." (Danish proverb) Click to tweet
189. "The best way to treat a cold is with contempt." (William Osler) Click to tweet
190. "I cannot afford to waste my time making money." (Louis Agassiz) Click to tweet
191. "Age is of no important unless you're a cheese." (Billie Burke) Click to tweet
192. "Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along." (Ken Dooley) Click to tweet
193. "May there always be work for your hands to do." (Irish Blessing) Click to tweet
194. "Food is an important part of a balanced diet." (Fran Lebowitz) Click to tweet
195. "No man ever complains of want of opportunity." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
196. "May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain." (Irish Blessing) Click to tweet
197. "People seldom live up to their baby pictures." (Rodney Dangerfield) Click to tweet
198. "If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it." (Johathan Winters) Click to tweet
199. "Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes." (Ann Crittenden) Click to tweet
200. "May the sun always shine on your windowpane." (Irish Blessing) Click to tweet
201. "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." (Golda Meir) Click to tweet
202. "Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." (Henry J. Kaiser) Click to tweet
203. "The only safe ship in a storm is leadership."Click to tweet
204. "He who opens a school door closes a prison." (Victor Hugo) Click to tweet
205. "Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand." (George Eliot) Click to tweet
206. "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." (H.G. Wells) Click to tweet
207. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Chinese Proverb) Click to tweet
208. "Energy and persistence conquer all things." (Benjamin Franklin) Click to tweet
209. "No one ever listened himself out of a job." (Calvin Coolidge) Click to tweet
210. "Saddle your hoss before sassin' the boss." (Ken Alstad) Click to tweet
211. "As we grow old, the beauty steals inward." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
212. "May your purse always hold a coin or two." (Irish Blessing) Click to tweet
213. "First things first, second things never." (Shirley Conran) Click to tweet
214. "An eye for an eye makes everyone blind." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
215. "There is no education like adversity." (Benjamin Disraeli) Click to tweet
216. "Hope is the dream of the waking man." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
217. "The greatest strength is gentleness." (Iroquois Proverb) Click to tweet
218. "The average person thinks he isn't." (Father Larry Lorenzoini) Click to tweet
219. "Use soft words and hard arguments."Click to tweet
220. "Morale is self-esteem in action." (Avery Weisman) Click to tweet
221. "It's hard to stand still in life. If you're not going forward, you may be going backward. Sometimes this movement is so subtle we're not aware of it." (Franklin Field) Click to tweet
222. "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away and you have their shoes." (Jack Handey) Click to tweet
223. "We think that comfort and luxury are the chief requirements in life, when all we really need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." (Richard Morehead) Click to tweet
224. "When you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes." (Ken Dooley) Click to tweet
225. "It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang." (Charlie Reese) Click to tweet
226. "Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts." (Mary Ellen Chase) Click to tweet
227. "We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." (Frank Tibolt) Click to tweet
228. "Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task." (Haim Ginett) Click to tweet
229. "Say what you will about the ten commandments, but you must always come back to the pleasant thought there that there are only ten of them." (H.L. Mencken) Click to tweet
230. "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office." (Robert Frost) Click to tweet
231. "Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is do indispensable, none so powerful as hope. Without hope man is only half alive." (Charles Sawyer) Click to tweet
232. "If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men." (Chinese Proverb) Click to tweet
233. "It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow blower, or vacuum cleaner." (Ben Berger) Click to tweet
234. "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge." (Erwin Knoll) Click to tweet
235. "Every great discovery i made, i gambled that the truth was there, and then i acted on it in faith until i could prove its existence." (Arthur Compton) Click to tweet
236. "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. When there is love and inspiration, i don't think you can go far wrong." (Ella Fitzgerald) Click to tweet
237. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Click to tweet
238. "When you go into court, you are putting your fate in the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty." (Norm Crosby) Click to tweet
239. "Remember if your teenager doesn't think you are a real embarrassment and a hard-nosed bore, you are probably not doing your job." (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) Click to tweet
240. "Keep me away from wisdom which doesn't cry, philosophy that doesn't laugh and greatness which doesn't bow down before children." (Khalil Gibran) Click to tweet
241. "It's not a bad idea to get into the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them." (Isabel Colegate) Click to tweet
242. "Once i thought to write a history of the immigrants in america. Then i discovered that the immigrants were american history." (Oscan Handlin) Click to tweet
243. "No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth." (Robert Southey) Click to tweet
244. "Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party." (Jimmy Buffet) Click to tweet
245. "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet
246. "Old wood is best to burn; old horses to ride; old books to read; old wine to drink; so are old friends most trusty to use." (Leonard Wright) Click to tweet
247. "Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man i am comes face to face with the man i might have been."Click to tweet
248. "It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it's the little differences that make them interesting." (Bill Baruch) Click to tweet
249. "Trouble is part of your life. If you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough." (Dinah Shore) Click to tweet
250. "Any coward can fight a battle he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing." (George Eliot) Click to tweet
251. "I hated every minute of the training, but i said, "don't quit. Suffer now and life the rest of your life as a champion"." (Muhammad Ali) Click to tweet
252. "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." (William Ward) Click to tweet
253. "Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books." (Julian Barnes) Click to tweet
254. "Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves." (Buddha) Click to tweet
255. "Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation." (Ken Hubbard) Click to tweet
256. "When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself." (Jason Bell) Click to tweet
257. "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." (Seneca) Click to tweet
258. "One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." (Dale Carnegie) Click to tweet
259. "The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of their tires." (Dorothy Parker) Click to tweet
260. "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." (Bill Watterson) Click to tweet
261. "To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking." (Johann Von Goethe) Click to tweet
262. "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have of changing others." (Jacob Braude) Click to tweet
263. "This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them, because youth is a disease from which we all recover." (Dorothy Fuldheim) Click to tweet
264. "You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away." (Arlene Blum) Click to tweet
265. "Jumping at very small opportunities may bet up there more quickly than waiting for the big one to come along." (Hugh Allen) Click to tweet
266. "A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad." (Albert Camus) Click to tweet
267. "The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words” “i did not have the time." (Franklin Field) Click to tweet
268. "Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Click to tweet
269. "The more intelligent people are the more they see differences. To the unimaginative, everything looks alike." (Harold Hamlin) Click to tweet
270. "Man is a strange animal. He doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is against it." (Adlai E. Stevenson) Click to tweet
271. "Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child." (Lauren Van Der Post) Click to tweet
272. "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." (Dwight Eisenhower) Click to tweet
273. "If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars." (Rahubdrabath Tagone) Click to tweet
274. "Use the talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best." (Henry Van Dyke) Click to tweet
275. "It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit." (Josh Billings) Click to tweet
276. "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
277. "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." (Martha Washington) Click to tweet
278. "The kind of humor i like is the type that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes." (William Davis) Click to tweet
279. "The real judges of your character aren't your neighbors, your relatives or even the people you spend a lot of time with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and service personnel." (Kathleen Piper) Click to tweet
280. "When i was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant i could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when i got to be twenty-one, i was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." (Mark Twain) Click to tweet
281. "I write down everything i want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is i wrote down, i spend the time looking for the paper i wrote it down on." (Beryl Pfizer) Click to tweet
282. "If one only wished to be happy, this could easily be accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than we are." (Montesquieu) Click to tweet
283. "Resolve to be tender with the young; compassionate with the aged; sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these." (Bob Goddard) Click to tweet
284. "The real judges of your character aren’t your neighbors, your relatives, or even the people you play bridge with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and clerks." (Katherine Piper) Click to tweet
285. "Life is about chasing after the things you truly believe are worth it, even if they don’t happen. I’d rather have nothing but know i didn’t settle for something i didn’t want." (Salma Hayek) Click to tweet
286. "I would rather persuade a man to go along, because once he has been persuaded he will stick. If i scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone." (Dwight D. Eisenhower) Click to tweet
287. "I cannot even imagine where i would be today were it not for a handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it; friends make life a lot more fun." (Charles R. Swindoll) Click to tweet
288. "What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it’s like the difference between romantic love and an arranged marriage." (Terrence Rafferty) Click to tweet
289. "When i look back on these worries, i remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his line, most of which never happened." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
290. "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 try to follow them." (Louisa May Alcott) Click to tweet
291. "In the final analysis, it is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." (Ann Landers) Click to tweet
292. "Gratitude is a sometime thing in the world. Just because you've been feeding the birds all winter, don't expect the birds to take it easy on your grass seed." (Bill Vaughn) Click to tweet
293. "The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see him nor follow him." (George Brandes) Click to tweet
294. "A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
295. "Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about." (Sydney J. Harris) Click to tweet
296. "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) Click to tweet
297. "When the politicians complain that tv turns their proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that tv has merely demonstrated that not all performers are well trained." (Edward R. Murrow) Click to tweet
298. "No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision. It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it." (Robert Belanger) Click to tweet
299. "The trouble is, sancho,” said don quixote, “you are so afraid that you cannot hear or see properly; for one of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than they are." (Miguel de Cervantes) Click to tweet
300. "Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we should just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." (Earl Nightingale) Click to tweet
301. "Do not keep the alabaster box of love and friendship sealed until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words, while there ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before you go." (George Childs) Click to tweet 302. "Introducing ideas is like introducing new friends. It takes time to know and understand people before someone else's friends become our friends as well. Therefore, when you introduce new ideas to someone else, you must give them sufficient time to get to know them before you can expect agreement." (Chester Karras) Click to tweet 303. "Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Enthusiasm is natural; it is being alive, taking the initiative, seeing the importance of what you do, giving it dignity and making what you do important to yourself and to others." (Gordon Parks) Click to tweet 304. "My will shall face the future. Whether i fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or i can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only i hold the key to my destiny." (Elaine Maxwell) Click to tweet
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