Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Inspirational quotes Part 6

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1) The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

2) Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

3) At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

4) Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

5) Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

6) The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

7) Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

8) Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

9) A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

10) It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

11) The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

12) To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

13) The only real laughter comes from despair.

14) It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

15) The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

16) When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

17) A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

18) It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

19) Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

20) Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

21) Let him who would move the world first move himself.

22) Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

23) There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

24) Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

25) Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

26) No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

27) He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

28) Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

29) There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

30) A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

31) Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

32) Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

33) The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

34) How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

35) Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

36) Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

37) Desire is the very essence of man.

38) Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

39) Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

40) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

41) Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

42) And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you – friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

43) In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

44) How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

45) A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

46) I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

47) Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

48) I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

49) Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

50) When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

51) Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

52) Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

53) Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

54) If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

55) Resist much. Obey little.

56) One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

57) If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

58) The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

59) Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

60) It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

61) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

62) Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

63) Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

64) The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

65) Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

66) The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

67) Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

68) Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

69) When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

70) Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

71) Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

72) Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

73) Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

74) Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

75) Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

76) Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

77) If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

78) Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

79) You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

80) Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

81) If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

82) Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

83) Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

84) I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

85) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

86) The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

87) If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

88) Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

89) Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

90) Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

91) Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

92) Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

93) It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

94) The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

95) It takes a great man to be a good listener.

96) For we walk by faith, not by sight

97) Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

98) Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

99) The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

100) There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

101) All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

102) When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

103) Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

104) Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

105) Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

106) A house divided against itself cannot stand.

107) Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

108) Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

109) Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

110) Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

111) To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

112) Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

113) A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

114) If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

115) If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

116) Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

117) Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

118) Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

119) To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

120) Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

121) In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

122) The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

123) Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

124) One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

125) Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

126) Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

127) I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

128) The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

129) There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.

130) You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

131) We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

132) I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

133) If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

134) But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

135) Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

136) If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

137) Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

138) Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

139) To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

140) As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

141) The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

142) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

143) This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

144) Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

145) One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

146) Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

147) Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

148) A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

149) If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

150) The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

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