A page dedicated to all things inspirational!
"When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly" -Michel de Montaigne
"When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly" -Michel de Montaigne
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."
-Aldous Huxley
"One man with courage makes a majority." -Andrew Jackson
"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have strength to stare it down." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther."
-John Wooden
"Remember that your most rewarding moments happened when you learned something new."
- Edwin Dorn
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."
- Thomas Szasz
"The greatest story you will ever tell is your own." - Charlie Rose
"The standard of success for too many Americans has become personal greed rather than common good." - Marian Wright Edelman
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
"If your success is not on your own terms; if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all." - Anna Quindlen
"Do not leave your heritage behind. Go forward with pride in your traditions and your families, in your ethnicity, in your gender, in your national origin." - Alan Dershowitz
"We gain a tremendous competitive advantage in this diverse world by knowing and understanding the culture of others." - Alan Dershowitz
"Some leaders are born women." - Saying on a T-shirt at the United Nationa observance of International Women's Day
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong
"The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things any university can teach."
- Oscar Wilde
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike
"There is no knowledge that is not power." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or destroy." - Ayn Rand
I wish one of my roommates would abide by this! >:(
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." - Helen Keller
"A pessimist sees the difficult in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn vos Savant
"If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear; For, if you will persevere, You will conquer; never fear; Try, try again." - McGuffey's Second Reader
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - Norman Schwarzkopf
"It is not only for what we do that we are responsible, but also for what we do not do." - Moliere
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is."
- Michael De Saintamo
