Two Thousand Inspiring Quotations

Two thousand Inspiring Quotations

Collated by Silvio Famularo

Copyright 2011 Silvio Famularo

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Solomon, whom the Bible states was the wisest man whoever lived, wrote, Wisdom is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her (Proverbs 3: 15).

I have gleaned through many thousands of famous quotations by famous people to select this collection of inspiring, positive, uplifting and motivating sayings, which if considered seriously and put into practice, will make anyone a much wiser and wittier person.

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Addison, Joseph

Advice

Aesop

Alighieri, Dante

Allen, Fred

Anonymous

Antioninus

Attitudes

Augustine

Aristotle

Bombeck, Erma

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.

Bronte, Charlotte

Buscaglia Leo

Cage, John

Carmichael, Amy

Carnegie, Dale

Cash, Rosie

Chaplin, Charlie

Chesterton, G. K.

Churchill, Sir Winston

Cicero

Confucius

Creativity/Ideas

Dinesen, Isak

Dumas, Alexandre

Wayne Dyer

Economics

Edison, Thomas

Education

Elliot, Jim

Einstein, Albert

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emotions

Entertainment

Experience

Faith

Ford, Henry

Forgiveness

Franklin, Benjamin

Friendship

Frost, Robert

Gandhi, Mohandas

Goldwyn, Samuel

Goodall, Jane

Graham, Billy

Happiness

Hugo, Victor

Inspiration

James, William

James The evangelist)

Jesus Christ

Joy

Keller, Helen

Kennedy, John F.

King, Martin Luther Jr.

Kipling, Rudyard

Knowledge/Wisdom

Laughter

Lewis, C S

Lincoln, Abraham

Liszewski, Stanley

Longfellow, Wadsworth

Love

Marcus Aurelius

Marriage

Miscellaneous

Money

Mother Teresa

Music

Norman Vincent Peale

Paul The Apostle)

Politics

Prayer

The Bible (Proverbs

Psalms

Quotations

Reagan, Ronald

Rogers, Will

Rohn, Jim

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Schweitzer, Albert

Seneca

Shakespeare, William

Success/Failure

Thoreau, Henry David

Truman, Harry S.

Trust

Twain, Mark

Washington, Booker T.

Wesley, John

Wilson, Woodrow

Winfrey, Oprah

Worry

Zig Ziglar

Addison, Joseph (1672 – 1719)

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. ~ Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ~ Joseph Addison

What sculpture is to a block of marble; education is to a human soul. ~ Joseph Addison

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. ~ Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. ~ Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ~ Joseph Addison

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other. ~ Joseph Addison

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. ~ Joseph Addison

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ~ Joseph Addison

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ~ Joseph Addison

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. ~ Joseph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. ~ Joseph Addison

Self-discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. ~ Joseph Addison

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self. ~ Joseph Addison

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. ~ Joseph Addison

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~ Joseph Addison

Exercise ferments the humours, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigour, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. ~ Joseph Addison

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ~ Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. ~ Joseph Addison

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Advice

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ~ Erma Bombeck

Keep your words soft and tender. Tomorrow you may have to eat them. ~ Anon

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. ~ H. Jackson Brown

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. ~ Dale Carnegie

Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ~ Albert Einstein

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~ William Faulkner

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~ Robert Frost

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi

Always look ahead. There are no regrets in that direction. ~ Anon.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. ~ Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. ~ Sidney Goff

Live truth instead of professing it. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John F. Kennedy

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa

Trust, but verify. ~ Ronald Reagan

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You have to take those chances on making those big mistakes. ~ Cybill Shepherd

Start slow and taper off. ~ Walt Stack, marathon runner

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ~ Mark Twain

Change before you have to. ~ Jack Welch

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighbourhood. ~ Maya Angelou

One of the best things a father can do for his children is love their mother. – Anon

The best inheritance parents can give to their children is a few minutes of their time each day. ~ Anon

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Aesop (Aprox 620 –560 BC)

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ~ Aesop

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. ~ Aesop

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. ~ Aesop

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force. ~ Aesop

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. ~ Aesop

Union gives strength. ~ Aesop

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~ Aesop

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. ~ Aesop

Familiarity breeds contempt. ~ Aesop

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. ~ Aesop

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ~ Aesop

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. ~ Aesop

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified ~ Aesop

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~ Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ~ Aesop

Appearances often are deceiving. ~ Aesop

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Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321)

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~ Dante Alighieri

Avarice, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ~ Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act. ~ Dante Alighieri

I love to doubt as well as know. ~ Dante Alighieri

O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. ~ Dante Alighieri

A great flame follows a little spark. ~ Dante Alighieri

He listens well who takes notes. ~ Dante Alighieri

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Allen, Fred (1894 – 1956)

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~ Fred Allen

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. ~ Fred Allen

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. ~ Fred Allen

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well done. ~ Fred Allen

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Anonymous

It’s not what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what’s in your heart. ~ Anon

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? ~ Anon

The character of a man is not how far he falls, but how quickly he gets up. ~Anon

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. ~Anon

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ~Anon

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow ~Anon

Logic has no place in hatred. ~Anon

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. ~ Anon

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent. ~ Anon

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. ~ Anon

There is no sense in being pessimistic. It would not work anyway. ~ Anon

Life is like a never-ending poker game. In every situation you are dealt a hand and depending on how you play your cards will determine your outcome. ~ Anon

You only reap what you sow. So plant only good intentions and watch how fast they will

Grow. ~ Anon

Age, is a matter of the mind...If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Anon

A gift, with strings attached, is not a gift but an arrangement. ~ Anon

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~ Anon

You can never get ahead of anyone while you are kicking him or her in the pants. ~ Anon

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~ Anon

Only three things are certain in life: death, income tax and a word from the sponsor. ~ Anon

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~ Anon

The best armour is to keep out of range. ~ Anon

God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage. ~ Anon

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. ~ Anon

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. ~ Anon

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters. ~ Anon

A closed mouth gathers no feet. ~Anon

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. ~ Anonymous

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. ~Anon

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ~Anon

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. ~Anon

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. ~Anon

A groundless rumour often covers a lot of ground. ~Anon

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. ~Anon

A man is known by the company he avoids. ~Anon

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. ~Anon

Better to get up late and be wide-awake than to get up early and be asleep all day. ~Anon

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. ~Anon

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. ~Anon

Contentment is not the fulfilment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. ~Anon

Discretion is the better part of valour. ~Anon

If for a tranquil mind you seek, these things observe with care; of whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how, and when and where. ~Anon

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world would not raise your price. ~Anon

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. ~Anon

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. ~Anon

‘Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice. ~Anon

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything. ~Anon

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences. ~Anon

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. ~Anon

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. ~Anon

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~Anon

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop. ~Anon

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ~Anon

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. ~Anon

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. ~Anon

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. ~Anon

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Anon

Fools rush in where fools have been before. ~Anon

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Attitudes

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ~ William James

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighbourhood. ~ Maya Angelou

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