Famous Inspirational Quotations

EMPATHY/CARING Quotes

echan76 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:48:51 +0000

“My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The more you care, the stronger you can be.” — Jim Rohn

“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” – George Washington Carver

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a ‘you can do it!’ when things are tough.” — Richard De Vos

Plenty of dancing quotes & quotations

echan76 — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:45:03 +0000

Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ~Author Unknown

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~Ted Shawn, Time, 25 July 1955

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~George Balanchine

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey

Plenty of passion sayings & quotations

echan76 — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:44:16 +0000

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passions, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
~passion sayings by Andr� Gide, Journals, 13 September 1938

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
~passion sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals.
~inspirational sayings about Writing quotes by Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly
~passion quotes by Rose Franken

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
~famous quotes about Gardens by Benjamin Disraeli

Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused - as remarkable you might say - as most women.
~passion sayings by Jane Howard

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
~passion sayings by Pema Chodron

Plenty of parenting quotes & quotations

echan76 — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:43:47 +0000

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~parenting quotes by Elizabeth Stone

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.
~inspirational sayings about Curmudgeons quotes by Bill Fitch

Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying(Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud “snort” noises.) I don’t know why parents don’t do this more oftenUsually it makes the kid laughSometimes it s
~parenting quotes by P.J. O’Rourke

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about… We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live
~famous quotes about Dreams by Joseph Epstein

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?
~parenting sayings by Thomas Szasz

BEING THE BEST Quotes

echan76 — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:53:49 +0000

BEING THE BEST

“You stop being average the day you decide to become a Champion, because the average person won’t make that decision.” — Tom Hopkins

“Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I’m talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it’s just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring.” — Red Aurbach

“Good is not good where better is expected.” – Thomas Fuller

“If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.” – Rubel Shelly

Self Improvement Sayings & Quotes

echan76 — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:39:08 +0000

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Remedy your deficiencies,
and your merits will take care of themselves.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Marcus Aurelius

Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds

sayings of great people & quotations

echan76 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:34:26 +0000

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
~inspirational sayings about Happiness quotes by Robert S. Lynd

Americans are broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn’t drive, there is something wrong with him.
~people quotes by Art Buchwald, How Un-American Can You Get?, Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
~famous quotes about Media Journalism by Malcolm X

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
~people sayings by Tenneva Jordan

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~saying of great people by Thomas Edison

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
~inspirational sayings about Leadership quotes by Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Great personality quotes and Wise personality sayings

echan76 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:52:16 +0000

Personality can open doors; only character can keep them open.
~good quotes about Personality of

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.
~famous sayings on Hair by Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character
~motivational quotations on Anniversaries by Peter Devries

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.
~wise personality sayings by Author Unknown

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character
~saying by Peter Devries

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~inspirational quote on Poetry by T.S. Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent, 1919

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.
~good quotes about Humor of Brian Tracy

Prosperity Quotes and Sayings

echan76 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:50:53 +0000

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. ~Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

Men can bear all things except good days. ~Dutch Proverb

If living conditions don’t stop improving in this country, we’re going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. ~Russell P. Askue

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ~Paul Sweeney

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

Teenager Quotes, Sayings about Teens, Quotations about Teenagers

echan76 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:49:53 +0000

Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. ~Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies

Too many of today’s children have straight teeth and crooked morals. ~Unknown high school principal

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ~Doug Larson

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911