Below are the the worst inspiring quotes voted by visitors to this website.
| No. | Quote |
| 1. | Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Demosthenes) |
| 2. | The 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) |
| 3. | A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. (Groucho Marx) |
| 4. | To fly, we have to have resistance. (Maya Lin) |
| 5. | Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. (Hubert Hoover) |
| 6. | For 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) |
| 7. | You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. (James A. Froude) |
| 8. | If 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) |
| 9. | The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. (Martha Washington) |
| 10. | The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. (William James) |
| 11. | "There is the sky, which is all men's together..." (Euripides) |
| 12. | A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. (Edmund Burke) |
| 13. | God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love. (John Dryden) |
| 14. | Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath (James 1:19) |
| 15. | I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. (Bible) |
| 16. | Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. (John Dryden) |
| 17. | To 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) |
| 18. | The 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) |
| 19. | Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. (Ella Williams) |
| 20. | The 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) |