Inspiring Quotes Archive

This is the archive where you can view previously submitted inspiring quotes.

Date Quote Rate
10/12/2009Ask God to give you what you want. Help him to justify your wants by the way you live, and then having given him your prayer, have the faith and courage to rely on his power to do the thing that is right in his eyes. (Joseph Portnoy)[][]
10/12/2009We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin Frankin)[][]
09/12/2009Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. (Henry Ford)[][]
09/12/2009A goal is a dream with a deadline. (Napoleon Hill)[][]
02/11/2009For it is only the man who risks going too far who will ever know how far one man can go. (T. S. Eliot)[][]
02/05/2009Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. (Aristotle)[][]
02/05/2009My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint. (Elizabeth Kenny)[][]
02/05/2009Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God. (Epictetus)[][]
02/05/2009The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. (Eric Hoffer)[][]
02/05/2009Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back - in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. (Frederick Buechner)[][]
02/05/2009Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. (James Thurber)[][]
02/05/2009Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. (Thomas a Kempis)[][]
02/05/2009I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow (William Blake)[][]
02/05/2009Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. (Abraham Lincoln)[][]
02/05/2009If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. (Carl Rogers)[][]
02/05/2009Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun. (Colleen C. Barrett)[][]
02/05/2009To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. (Confucius)[][]
02/05/2009Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Demosthenes)[][]
02/05/2009Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. (Demosthenes)[][]
02/05/2009For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)[][]
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