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Inspirational Quotes No.1

 

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie


I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-Arthur Rubenstein  

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams  

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
-Albert Camus  

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs --jolted by every pebble in the road.
-Henry Ward Beecher  

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find a good one, you must a hundred try.
-Claude Mermet  

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan  

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
-Thomas Merton  

We can do no great things…only small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa  

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
-Margaret Thatcher 

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.
-Bernard M. Baruch 

Laughter is an instant vacation.
-Milton Berle 

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others
-Vincent Van Gogh  

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in
friendship, never in want.
-Irish toast  

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt  

The ultimate test of a man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
-Gaylord Nelson  

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.
-George Van Valkenburg  

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back.
-Unknown  

A real friend never gets in your way - unless you happen to be on the way down.
-Dr. Wayne Dyer  

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
-Anonymous  

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise--then you will discover the fullness of your life.
-Brother David Steindl-Rast  

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
-Mahatma Gandhi  

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
-Will Rogers  

Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
-Pierce Harris  

Service is the rent you pay for room on this planet.
-Shirley Chisholm  

The beginning is the most important part of any work.
-  Plato 

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out – it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
-Robert Service  

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
-  John Wanamaker
 

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.
-  Rumi
 

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
-  Henri Matisse
 

Silent gratitude isn’t much good to anyone.
-  Gladys Browyn Stern
 

Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank.
-  Ben Irwin
 

The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going.
-  David S. Jordan
 

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
-  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
 

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-  Carl Bard
 

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.
-  Mitzi Chandler

 

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