Inspiring Quotes Archive

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

Date Quote Rate
02/05/2009The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech. (Edwin H. Friedman)[][]
02/05/2009Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. (Ella Williams)[][]
02/05/2009The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. (Frank Lloyd Wright)[][]
02/05/2009When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)[][]
02/05/2009If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash (Henry Ford)[][]
02/05/2009You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. (James A. Froude)[][]
02/05/2009The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. (M. Scott Peck)[][]
02/05/2009If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Marcus Aurelius)[][]
02/05/2009No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. (Marian Wright Edelman)[][]
02/05/2009You really can change the world if you care enough. (Marian Wright Edelman)[][]
02/05/2009And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Marianne Williamson)[][]
02/05/2009The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. (Martha Washington)[][]
02/05/2009To fly, we have to have resistance. (Maya Lin)[][]
02/05/2009To succeed, we must first believe that we can. (Michael Korda)[][]
02/05/2009There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
02/05/2009Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
02/05/2009So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
02/05/2009Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. (Richard Bach)[][]
02/05/2009Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice. (Spinoza)[][]
02/05/2009An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Susan J. Bissonette)[][]
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