Be Inspired! - Your Inspiration 101

Inspiring quotes from Ayn Rand

2010-11-02T14:01:00.001+08:00

Ayn Rand, a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, is popularly known for creating a philosophy she named "Objectivism" and for her influential and controversial ideas that have attracted both enthusiastic admiration and scathing denunciation.

Here are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

2. "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

3. "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

4. "A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving."

Great quotes from Leo Buscaglia

2010-07-15T08:27:00.004+08:00

Leo F. Buscaglia is an Italian-American author and motivational speaker. His books, The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Bus 9 to Paradise, Living Loving and Learning, Love, and My Father, were all on the NY Times bestsellers list. Upon his death in 1998, his books already had 18 million copies in 17 languages in print.

Here are some of his great thoughts and inspiring quotes:

1. “We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”

2. "I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be."

3. “There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control."

4. "We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves."

5. “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein inspires

2010-06-21T08:28:00.001+08:00

Ludwig Wittgenstein is an Austrian-British philosopher, considered to be one of the greatest of the 20th century. His two books, Tractatus Logico-Philosiphicus (TLP) and Philosophical Investigations, were voted into the top five most important books of the 20th century by US and Canadian professional philosophers in an end-of-the century poll.

Here are some of his inspiring quotations:

1. "Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."

2. "The world is independent of my will."

3. "A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."

4. "An inner process stands in need of outward criteria."

5. "Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep."

Part 2: Napoleon Bonaparte's quotes

2010-06-04T08:08:00.005+08:00

Napoleon Bonaparte, better known as simply "Napoleon" was one of the greatest military leaders of all time. Although he was France's greatest ever general,
he was actually of Italian descent. Not everything he did and said was wonderful, but
isn't that true of all of us?

Say what you will about him, but he knew how to get results.

He was famous for passionate and relentless "action".

Here are the additional quotes from him:

1. "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

2. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

3. "The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."

4. "Victory belongs to the most persevering."

Inspiring Quotes From Ann Landers

2010-05-24T18:17:00.006+08:00

Ann Landers - the pseudonym copyrighted by Esther “Eppie” Pauline Friedman Lederer. Eppie Lederer wrote the Ask Ann Landers advice column for over 45 years, as it was syndicated in major newspapers across North America. She was honored by the Chicago City Council in 2002, as the street sign “Ann ‘Eppie’ Landers Way” was installed in front of the headquarters of her home paper, The Chicago Tribune Tower.

The following are some quotes from Ann Landers:

1. "Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies."

2. "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

3. “If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for
all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'”

4. “If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.”

5. "Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."

Albert Schweitzer inpires

2010-05-21T10:57:00.005+08:00

Who is Albert Schweitzer?
It's hard to say what this man was ... He was a philosopher, a physician, a theologian, and a musician.

His philosophy was simple: affirmation of life.

He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in establishing a hospital in an impoverished area of Gabon (in central Africa).

Here are some of his inspiring quotes:

1. "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

2. "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

3. "A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."

4. "An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind."

Quotes from Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

2010-04-29T06:39:00.004+08:00

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington - a Greek-American columnist and writer. She leads the public interest group The Detroit Project, which lobbies for manufacturing of cars running on alternative fuels. She is also widely known as the founder of the highly successful news website and weblog, The Huffington Post (8.9 million unique visitors by February 2009 according to Nielsen Net Ratings).

Here are her inspiring quotes:

1. "But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."

2. "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw
up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."

3. "The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are…."

4. "Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

5. "The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become fearless… is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection."

James Russell Lowell's famous quotations

2010-04-18T20:37:00.000+08:00

James Russell Lowell - an American poet and diplomat. His poem The Present Crisis was one of the first works that addressed the issue of slavery and considered to have a major impact on the modern civil rights movement. This poem was often quoted by Martin Luther King, Jr. and was also the source to the hymn Once to Every Man and Nation.

1. "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

2. "Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."

3. "No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."

4. "In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."

5. "Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts."

Nadia Comaneci's quotes

2010-04-16T10:42:00.002+08:00

Nadia Elena Comaneci - a Romanian gymnast who won three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She is the very first gymnast to receive a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnast event. In 1984 and 2004, Nadia Comaneci also received the Olympic Order, the highest award given by the International Olympic Committee.

The following are five of her famous quotes:

1. "Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."

2. "I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

3. "I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment."

4. "You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with
positive people."

5. "I don't do many things. But if I do one, I do it well. I don't give half. I don't like not to be perfect."

Rudyard Kipling's quotes

2010-04-14T00:35:00.001+08:00

Joseph Rudyard Kipling - a British poet born in British India. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His great works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), Mandalay (1890)and Gunga Din (1892).

Here are Rudyard Kipling's quotes:

1. "Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade."

2. "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"

3. "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."

4. "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."

5. "If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously
want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price."

Anita Roddick's quotes

2010-04-11T00:25:00.001+08:00

Anita Roddick - a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner. She is widely known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics
company producing and retailing beauty products that formed ethical consumerism.
The Body Shop was one of the first to rule out the use of ingredients tested
on animals and encourage fair trade with third world countries.

Here are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."

2. "There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it."

3. "When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun."

4. "We were most creative when our back was against the wall."

5. "But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."

Five inspiring quotes from Samuel Butler

2010-04-08T00:21:00.004+08:00

Samuel Butler - a Victorian author of the 19th century. He authored the Utopian satire Erewhon and the novel The Way of All Flesh. The latter was started in 1870 and published only in 1903 because it was so modern and ahead of its time.

Here are some of Samuel's inspiring quotations:

1. "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."

2. "If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere
long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."

3. “Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”

4. "Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground,
but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

5. "Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap."

Mary Lou Retton's inspiring quotes

2010-03-18T00:35:00.001+08:00

Mary Lou Retton - an American gymnast who was the first female outside Eastern Europe to win the Olympic all-around title. There is a skill on the uneven bars that is named after her- the Retton Flip.

Here are some of her quotes:

1. "As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."

2. "Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it."

3. "You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost."

4. "I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right."

5. "I know that if I wanted to have a chance at a medal in the Olympics, I was not going to do it if I stayed at home."

Five quotes from Jean Paul Richter

2010-03-11T23:45:00.000+08:00

Jean Paul Richter - a German Romantic writer who is best known for his humorous novels and stories. His complete works appeared in 1826 to 1828 in 60 volumes.
He had the extraordinary ability to express great thoughts in simple events.

Here are his famous quotes:

1. “Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

2. “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary
situations.”

3. "Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."

4. "Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a
storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."

5. "Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm."

Indira Gandhi's quotes

2010-02-14T09:03:00.004+08:00

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi - the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for a total of fifteen years: three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and, to date, only female Prime Minister.

Here are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."

2. "There is not love where there is no will."

3. "You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

4. "Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now."

5. "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

2010-01-10T08:43:00.006+08:00

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. - an American physician, lecturer and author. He is considered as one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century. He was also a member of the group known as the Fireside Poets along with William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. It is believed that Arthur Conan Doyle drew one inspiration for his famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes from a real-life self-described "consulting detective" named Wendel Scherer changing "Scherer" to "Sherlock" and "Wendel" to "Holmes" by association with Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Here are some of his famous quotes:

1. "Every calling is great when greatly pursued."

2. "To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

3. "He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."

4. "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are
moving."

5. "The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."

Quotes from Gabrielle Reece

2009-12-01T10:39:00.003+08:00

Gabrielle Allyse Reece is an American professional volleyball player, sports announcer and fashion model. Gabrielle Reece was the WBVL kills leader for four consecutive years (from 1993 to 1996), and was also named Offensive Player of the Year in 1994-95, and the League blocks leader in 1993. She also competed in the 1999-2000 Olympic Challenge Series and the 1999-2000 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, as well as other competitions.

Here are some of her inspiring quotes:
1. "I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I wanted to be the best."
2. "Why not go to the highest point of excellence?"
3. "Stay calm and aggressive."
4. "I have to believe in the process. It has become like a religion. It is part of my everyday life."
5. "You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it."

Quotes from Dorothy Stuart Hamill

2009-11-26T14:34:00.001+08:00

Dorothy Stuart Hamill is an American figure skater and the 1976 Olympic champion. She also has been an Ice Capades headliner from 1977-1984. Dorothy Hamill continues to skate in shows to this day. When she is asked when she will stop, she says, "Never."

Here are Dorothy Hamill's quotes:
1. "I was passionate. I found something that I loved."

2. "I think timing had a lot to do with it. I think I was sort of ready for it."

3. "I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

4. "You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on."

5. "I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it."

Donald John Trump's quotes

2009-11-22T14:21:00.000+08:00

Donald John Trump is an American business magnate, television personality, and author. He is the Chairman and CEO of the US-based real-estate developer Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts, a company that operates several casinos and hotels all over the world.

Here are some of his quotes:
1. "As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big."

2. "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."

3. "I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line."

4. "In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally
accomplish."

5. "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

Quotes from Martina Navratilova

2009-11-19T01:59:00.000+08:00

Martina Navratilova is a Czech athlete and a former World No. 1 women's tennis player. She has also been named as the second best female player of the 20th century, only next to Steffi Graf. She has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, an all-time record of 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She has also reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times (with 9 consecutive years from 1982 through 1990). She also won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record of 9 times.

Here are her quotes:
1. “I just try to concentrate on concentrating.”

2. “Just go out there and do what you have to do.”

3. "The player ultimately has to take responsibility. If they're not 100 percent, they're the only
ones who can make that decision."

4. "The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are at their worst."

William Shakespeare's quotes

2009-11-15T21:50:00.000+08:00

William Shakespeare is an English poet and playwright. He is known as the greatest writer in the English language. His works, including “Romeo and Juliet” and “Macbeth” have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Here are Shakespeare's inspiring quotes:

1. "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

2. "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

3. "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

4. "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

5. "Boldness be my friend."

Inspiring quotes from Henry Van Dyke

2009-11-13T12:05:00.000+08:00

Henry Van Dyke is an American author, educator, and clergyman. He became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received many other honors. He also wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" in 1907.

Here are some of his inspiring quotations:

1. "Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

2. "In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

3. "Look around for a place to sow a few seeds."

4. "What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us."

5. "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

Julie Andrews' beautiful quotes

2009-10-31T11:55:00.000+08:00

Julia Elizabeth Wells, popularly known as Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, author and icon. She has received honors from award organizations such as Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Awards, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards. She is also an author of children's books. In 2008 she published an autobiography, "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years".

Here are her quotes:

1. "I would be a fool to deny my own abilities."

2. "A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it."

3. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

4. “Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and
be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”

5. "Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly."

Margaret Fuller's quotes

2009-03-22T02:23:00.000+08:00

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli was an American journalist, critic and women's rights activist. She wrote the book “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, considered the first major feminist work in the United States.

Here are some quotes from Margaret Fuller:

1. "I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."

2. “Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.”

3. “Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”

4. "Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."

5."Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife."

Elbert Green Hubbard inspires

2009-02-27T15:52:00.000+08:00

Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He is most famous for his essay “A Message to Garcia”. He also wrote the book "Health and Wealth", published in 1908, which focused on using intelligence to rid one of fear and to bring the body back to health and happiness which leads to true wealth through service to others.

Here are some of his inspiring quotes:

1. "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."

2. "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

3. "A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."

4. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."

5. "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

Martha Graham's quotes

2009-02-22T20:18:00.000+08:00

Martha Graham was one of the best known American teachers and choreographers of modern dance.

Be inspired with Martha Graham's quotes:

1. "The only sin is mediocrity."

2. "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

3. "Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."

4. "Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."

5. "Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

Quotes from Katherine Mansfield

2009-02-17T13:20:00.000+08:00

Kathleen Mansfield Murry, who also went by the pen name Katherine Mansfield was a prominent short fiction writer from New Zealand and considered to be one of the best short story writers of her time. Her works include "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and "The Fly".
Here are her inspiring quotes:

1. "When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

2. "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."

3. “I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”

4. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't
build on it it's only good for wallowing in.”

5. "What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."

Anais Nin's inspiring Quotes

2009-02-12T19:29:00.000+08:00

Anais Nin was a Cuban-French writer. Her career as a published journal writer ran for sixty years, starting from her first published journal at the age of eleven.

Here are Anais Nin's quotes:

1. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

2. "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

3. “Good things happen to those who hustle.”

4. “Dreams are necessary to life.”

5. "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Dr. Joyce Brothers' quotes

2009-02-09T13:37:00.000+08:00

Dr. Joyce Brothers is an American psychologist and columnist who has been published
daily since 1960 and also maintained a monthly column in the magazine Good Housekeeping for four decades.

Quotes from Dr. Joyce Brothers:

1. "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking
of yourself as a success."

2. "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away
just below the conscious level."

3. “The person interested in success has to learn to view failure
as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the
top.”

4. “If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment
may be a way of life you should seriously consider.”

5. "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for
success."

Quotes from John F. Kennedy

2009-02-03T13:25:00.000+08:00

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, widely known as JFK was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. Americans consider JFK as one of the best presidents, along with Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.

Quotes from JFK:
1. "We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

2. "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

3. "There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less
than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. "

4. "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved
by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of
human destiny is beyond human beings."

5. "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's
what happens to you in life."

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Golda Meir's quotes

2009-01-31T12:50:00.000+08:00

Golda Meir was elected to the Knesset (parliament), when Israel became a state. She
was elected Prime Minister in 1969.

Here are her quotes:

1. "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy
to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning
the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

2. "To be or not to be is not a question of compromise.
Either you be or you don't be."

3. “The dog that trots about finds a bone.”

4. "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it."

5. "You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."

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Happy New Year dear Visitors!

2009-01-26T12:25:00.000+08:00

My dear friends and visitors,

I would like to thank all of you for your continued support and constant visit to this blog.
I do hope that the articles posted in this blog really helped you in overcoming your struggles and inspired you to go on.. live a happy life!

This new year, expect that there will be more challenges to face but dear fellow, never ever give up! Be tough!
I will be here to continue posting more quotes and share to you the things that keep me inspired so you, too will also be inspired!

I wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2009!!!!

God bless you!

Euripides' quotes

2008-12-20T14:51:00.000+08:00

Euripides was a playwright from Ancient Greece. He is considered as one of the three great tragedy playwrights of Classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. Many of his plays depict personal and social issues. He is known to have shown strong women characters and intelligent slaves in his works.

Here are his quotes:

1. "The bold are helpless without cleverness."

2. "Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. "

3. "Much effort, much prosperity."

4. "Leave no stone unturned."

5. "Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

Quotes from Pearl S. Buck

2008-12-16T18:58:00.000+08:00

Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer-winning American writer. She was also the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her Pulitzer-winning novel, The Good Earth, stayed on the
bestseller list for months. It also sold nearly two million copies, and was translated into thirty languages.

Here are some of her famous quotes:

1. "All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. "

2. "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

3. “I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. ”

4. "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. "

5. "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation."

Inspiring Quotes from Teddy Roosevelt

2008-12-07T16:57:00.000+08:00

Theodore Roosevelt, also known as Teddy Roosevelt was one of the four American statesmen
depicted in the Mount Rushmore Memorial. Two US Navy ships are also named after him: the submarine USS Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) and the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).

Here are his inspiring quotes:

1. "Believe you can and you're halfway there."

2. "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

3. "In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

4. "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

5. "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. "

Charles Kettering's inspiring quotations

2008-11-20T17:22:00.000+08:00

Charles Franklin Kettering was an American inventor who holds more than 300 patents. He headed the research for General Motors

for 27 years. Among his inventions were the electrical starting motor and the Freon refrigerant.

Here are some of Charles Kettering's quotes:

1. "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved."

2. "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

3. "High achievement always takes place in the frameworkof high expectation."

4. "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again."

5. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."

Inspiring Quotes from Lucille Ball

2008-11-04T21:02:00.000+08:00

Lucille Désirée Ball, widely known as Lucille Ball was an American actress for film,
television, stage and radio. She had a highly successful television career for more than thirty years and received thirteen nominations and four wins from the Emmy Awards.

Here's are some of her inspiring quotes:

1. "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

2. "Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

3. "I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not."

4. "The more things you do, the more you can do."

5. "I'm not funny. What I am is brave."

Get to know Ovid's quotes

2008-10-30T18:39:00.000+08:00

Publius Ovidius Naso, also known as Ovid, was a Roman poet considered
as one of the three canonical poets of Latin Literature
(along with Horace and Virgil).

Here are Ovid's quotes:

1. "At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."

2. "Fortune and love favor the brave."

3. "Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by."

4. "The bold adventurer succeeds the best."

5. "Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."

Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2008-10-21T17:28:00.000+08:00

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a Spanish playwright, novelist and poet. His legendary success, the novel “Don Quixote”, first published in 1605, has been released in 700 editions and translated in major languages.

Here are some quotes from Miguel de Cervantes:

1. "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. "

2. "Every man is the son of his own works."

3. "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."

4. "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

5. “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”

Ruth Elizabeth Davis' quotes

2008-10-02T17:24:00.000+08:00

Ruth Elizabeth Davis, better known to the world as Bette Davis was an American actress who ran a very successful career for 50 years. Her successful movies include The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), and The Corn Is Green (1945).

Here are her quotes:

1. "The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."

2. "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. "

3. "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

4. "I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. "

5. "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Quotes from Francis Bacon

2008-09-09T17:18:00.000+08:00

Francis Bacon, an English statesman and author. He authored “The Proficience and Advancement of Learning” (1605) and also wrote “In felicem memoriam Elizabethae”, a eulogy for the queen written in 1609.

Inspiring quotes from Francis Bacon:

1. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

2. "Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."

3. "There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."

4. “As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

Coco Chanel's quotes

2008-08-31T17:13:00.000+08:00

Gabrielle Chanel who we all know as Coco Chanel was a French dress designer whose career enjoyed 60 years on top of Parisian haute couture. Her empire was made phenomenal by the extraordinary success of the perfume Chanel No. 5, which was introduced in 1922.

Here are some inspiring quotes from Coco Chanel:

1. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

2. "I've never done anything by halves."

3. "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."

4. "I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."

5. "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Louisa May Alcott's quotations

2008-08-27T18:04:00.000+08:00

Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known for her novel "Little Women" published in1868.

Quotes from Louisa Alcott:

1. "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

2. "Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well."

3. "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."

4. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

5. "Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

Quotes from Henry Valentine Miller

2008-08-26T17:47:00.000+08:00

Henry Valentine Miller, an American painter and writer, known for his famousnovels Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring.

Here are Henry Miller's quotes:

1. “Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ”

2. “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

3. "Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."

4. "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

5. "What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs."

George Bernard Shaw's Inspiring Quotes

2008-08-20T17:36:00.000+08:00

George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

He also received an Academy Award for Writing the Adapted Screenplay for the film Pygmalion in 1938.

Here are his inspiring quotations:
1. "The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."

2. "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

3. "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."

4. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

5. "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

Quotes from Antoine de Saint Exupery

2008-07-30T18:39:00.000+08:00

Antoine de Saint Exupery was a French writer and aviator. He is most famous for his story The Little Prince.

Here are some of his inspiring quotations:

1. "A goal without a plan is just a wish."

2. "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

3. "The one thing that matters is the effort."

4. "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

5. "The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Henry David Thoreau's quotes

2008-07-24T18:26:00.000+08:00

Henry David Thoreau was an American author and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden and his essay Civil Disobedience.

Here are his inspiring quotes:

1. "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

2. "It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? "

3. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. "

4. "All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must possess if we are to face the future as finishers."

5. "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.To make a deep mentalpath, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to
dominate our lives."

Quotes from Thomas Carlyle

2008-07-10T19:06:00.000+08:00

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. I have been inspired by his quotes. The following are his quotations:

1. "Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle
is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a
strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

2. "Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

3. "Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

4. "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. "

5. “Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.”

Lord Chesterfield's inpirational quotes

2008-07-01T18:32:00.000+08:00

Lord Chesterfield was a British statesman and diplomat.

Here are his inspiring quotes:

1. "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

2. "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

3. "Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."

4. "Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."

5. “Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”

Plato's Inspiring Quotes

2008-06-29T22:41:00.000+08:00

Plato was a great philosopher, writer and mathematician. He was the founder of the Academy in Athens and a student of Socrates.

1. "All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else."

2. "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

3. "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

4. "Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

5. "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "

Washington Irving's quotes

2008-06-27T18:20:00.000+08:00

Washington Irving was an American essayist, biographer, historian and author known for his two best short stories “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.”

Here are his famous inspiring quotations:

1. "Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes."

2. "One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."

3. "Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."

4. "There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted."

5. "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Inspiring Quotes from Bill Clinton

2008-06-22T20:05:00.000+08:00

William “Bill” Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.

1. “Keep your eyes on the prize and don’t turn back.”

2. “Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who chose to hold him back.”

3. "Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure."

4. "Strength and wisdom are not opposing values."

5. “If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”

ANDREW CARNEGIE's Inspirational Quotes

2008-06-15T18:35:00.000+08:00

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American businessman, industrialist and major Philanthropist.

Here are his inspirational quotes:

1. "Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."

2. "Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

3. "Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately."

4. "The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."

5. "Aim for the highest."

George Walton Lucas, Jr

2008-05-18T16:09:00.000+08:00

George Walton Lucas, Jr., is an American film director, producer and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga.

Here are his inspiring quotes:

"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."

"Either do, or do not, there is no try."

“In my experience, there is no such thing as luck.”

Vincent Van Gogh's famous quotes

2008-05-11T15:58:00.000+08:00

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist best known for his work Starry Night. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces.

Here are some of his famous quotes:

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2008-05-01T09:34:00.000+08:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet and one of the greatest orators of his time.

Here are his quotes:

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

Michael Jordan's inspiring quotes

2008-04-22T22:31:00.000+08:00

Michael Jordan, one ofthe greatest basketball players of all time.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation, and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

Here are some inspiring quotes from Michael Jordan:

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

Inspirational quotes from Victor Hugo

2008-04-19T09:48:00.000+08:00

Victor Hugo, a French poet, playwright, and novelist.
His best-known works are Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris.

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.

In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the English-speaking world his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).

Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon.

The following are Hugo's quotes:

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. "

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

"People do not lack strength; they lack will."

Richard Bach's quotes

2008-04-18T09:47:00.000+08:00

Richard Bach, an American writer
widely known for his bestsellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull,
Illusions and The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah.

The following are his inspiring quotes:

“In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”

“In order to win, you must expect to win.”

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. ‘Nothing’ is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

Les Brown's motivational quotes

2008-04-17T09:35:00.000+08:00

Les Brown, a renowned American professional speaker, author and television personality.

Here are his motivational quotes:

"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams."

"I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames."

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."

"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

2008-04-16T08:56:00.000+08:00

Oprah Winfrey, a popular American television talk show host and actress.

Here are her quotes:

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance. "

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."

Famous Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

2008-04-15T09:27:00.000+08:00

Napoleon Bonaparte, the French general who became Emperor of France
from 1804 to 1814.

Napoleon I (born Napoleone di Buonaparte, later Napoléon Bonaparte) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who had significant impact on modern European history. He was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as Premier Consul of the French Republic, Empereur des Français, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.

The following are his famous quotes:

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

Dwight David Eisenhower's quotes

2008-04-14T09:03:00.000+08:00

Dwight David Eisenhower was a General of the Army (five star general) in the United States Army and U.S. politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

As President, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.

Here are some of his quotes:

"Pessimism never won any battle."

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

"It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger."

Robert Frost - inspiring quotes

2008-04-11T16:27:00.000+08:00

Robert Frost was a popular American poet and a recipient of four Pulitzer awards.

Here are some of his famous and inspiring quotations:

"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."

“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”

"The best way out is always through."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Pablo Picasso

2008-04-10T15:23:00.000+08:00

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica (1937).

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito, a series of names honouring various saints and relatives. Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish custom.

Here are five of his inspiring and famous quotes:

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

"I do not seek, I find."

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."

Vince Lombardi's inspiring quotations

2008-04-09T10:09:00.000+08:00

Vince Lombardi is one of America's most accomplished and respected football coaches.

Here are his famous quotes:

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing - the result."

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success."

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

Quotes from Rene Descartes

2008-03-07T10:37:00.000+08:00

Rene Descartes - a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, writer and
scientist. He is also known as the Father of Modern Philosophy and the Father of Modern Mathematics.

"I think therefore I am."

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."

"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. "

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2008-03-05T17:18:00.000+08:00

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Inspiring Quotes from WALT DISNEY

2008-03-05T11:14:00.000+08:00

Walter Elias Disney a.k.a WALT DISNEY was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He received sixty four Academy Award nominations out of which he won on twenty six occasions. He holds the record for an individual with the most awards and the most nominations. Disney has also won seven Emmy Awards. Disney and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters, including the one many consider Disney's alter ego, Mickey Mouse. He is also well-known as the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, France, Japan and China.

Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World dream project in Orlando, Florida.

and here are his famous quotes....

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true."

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right."

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

Leonardo da Vinci's quotes

2008-03-04T12:03:00.000+08:00

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born as the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant girl, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence.

An Italian polymath; a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio.

Leonardo has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" or universal genius, a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

Read more about Leonardo da Vinci....

Also, take time to read his inspiring quotations below:

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."

Famous Quotes from HENRY FORD

2008-03-02T18:54:00.000+08:00

Henry Ford was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism", that is, the mass production of large numbers of inexpensive automobiles using the assembly line, coupled with high wages for his workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. He did not believe in accountants; he amassed one of the world's largest fortunes without ever having his company audited under his administration. Henry Ford's intense commitment to lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put a dealership in every city in North America, and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
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Henry Ford's famous quotes:

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Khalil Gibran: Artist, poet and writer!

2008-03-01T18:57:00.000+08:00

Khalil Gibran is a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer whose poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages. His full name is Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhael bin Saâd. He was born in Lebanon (at the time the Mount Lebanon Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent most of his life in the United States. He is the third bestselling poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao Tse.

Inspiring quotes from Kahlil:

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

Helen Keller: The Deafblind American author, activist and lecturer

2008-02-29T19:19:00.000+08:00

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to graduate from college.

The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play The Miracle Worker.

What is less well known is how Keller's life developed after she completed her education. A prolific author, she was well traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women's suffrage, workers' rights and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.

Here are her famous quotations:

"Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."

"I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

Who is Malcolm Forbes?

2008-02-28T18:37:00.000+08:00

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes is an American publisher. He published the Forbes magazine (one of the most successful business magazines in the US), founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today run by his son Steve Forbes.

He was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, where he donated the money for Forbes College, one of the six residential colleges at the University. He received an honorary degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and was initiated as an honorary member of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau.

Here are some of Malcolm Forbes inspirational quotes:

"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."

"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."

"The best vision is insight."

"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all."

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

"The best vision is insight."

Quotes from Britain’s First Female Prime Minister

2008-02-28T15:31:00.000+08:00

Margaret Hilda Thatcher was born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, England on October 13, 1925. She is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the first and to date only woman to hold either post. She is also the oldest living British Prime minister.

The following are some of her noted inspirational quotes:

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it."

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."

Famous Quotes from Napoleon Hill

2008-02-27T15:03:00.000+08:00

One of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature was Napoleon Hill. He is an American author who spent most of his effort on describing to his readers and students the paradox that "thoughts are things". "Think and Grow Rich" was his most famous work, and is considered as one of the best-selling books of all time. In America, Hill stated in his writings that people are free to believe what they want to believe, and this is what sets the United States apart from all other countries in the world. Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the promise of Hill's books.

Here are some of his famous quotes I have compiled:

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put this plan into action."

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

Og Mandino: The Greatest Salesman in the World

2008-02-26T10:08:00.000+08:00

Og Mandino was a "sales guru" and the author of the bestselling book The Greatest Salesman in the World. He remains one of the most inspirational and best-selling authors today. His books have sold over 50 million copies and have been translated into over twenty-five different languages. He was the president of Success Unlimited magazine until 1976. He had been inducted into the National Speakers Association's Hall Of Fame.

According to the 1930 U.S. Census, Mandino was named after his paternal grandfather. His nickname Og was derived from his full name, Augustino Mandino. Mandino eventually became a successful writer. His works were inspired by the Bible and influenced by Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone, and Emmet Fox. Mandino was once the editor of a high school paper and planned to attend the University of Missouri, a journalism school. But in the summer of 1940, before Mandino was able to enter college, his mother died suddenly from a massive heart attack. This happened while Mandino's mother was in the kitchen preparing his lunch. After the incident, Mandino decided to work in a paper factory until 1942. Afterwards, Mandino joined the United States Army Air Corps where he became a military officer and a bombadier. He flew for thirty bombing missions over Germany on board a B-24 Liberator during World War II. It was also during this time that Mandino flew with fellow pilot and movie star, Jimmy Stewart. Mandino kept a personalized 8 X 10 photograph of Stewart. This photograph hung on the wall of his home office where he wrote his books.

After his military duties, Mandino discovered that many companies were not hiring many former bomber pilots. As a result, he became an insurance salesman. Traveling on the road and sitting in bars at night, Mandino became an alcoholic. He was unable to keep a job. As a result, Mandino's wife, together with their only child, left him. One wintry November morning in Cleveland, Mandino almost tried to commit suicide. But as he sorted through several books in a library, volumes of self-help, success and motivation books captured Mandino's attention. He selected some titles, went to a table and began reading. Mandino followed his visit to the library with more visits to many other libraries around the United States. He read hundreds of books that dealt with success, a pastime that help him alleviate his alcoholism. It was in a library in Concord, New Hampshire, where he found W. Clement Stone's classic, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, a book that changed Mandino for the better.

Og Mandino's famous lines:

“A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.”

“Action will destroy your procrastination.”

“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”

"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.”

“Action will destroy your procrastination.”

India's "Father of the Nation" & his famous quotes

2008-02-25T09:13:00.000+08:00

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—a philosophy that is largely concerned with truth and 'resistance to evil through active, non-violent resistance'—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world as the Mahatma (Sanskrit: mahātmā — "Great Soul" - an epithet given by Tagore) and as Bapu (Gujarati: bāpu—"Father"). In India, he is officially accorded the honour of Father of the Nation and October 2, his birthday, is commemorated each year as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday. On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution declaring October 2 to be the "International Day of Non-Violence."

Here are his popular quotations:

"We must become the change we want to see."

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."

“You may never know what result comes of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.”

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”

"We must become the change we want to see."

Lao Tzu said...

2008-02-24T15:01:00.000+08:00

Lao Tzu is a Chinese philosopher who was considered as the father of Taoism.

Taoism is both a religion and a philosophy
that advocates following the Tao or
the way of
nature.

The following are Lao Tzu's famous quotes:

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. "

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. "

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

--"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

Saying "I Love You" in Different Languages

2008-02-23T09:16:00.001+08:00

A list of saying 'I Love You' in different languages:
(from 'A to Z')

Afrikaans: Ek is lief vir jou
Ek het jou lief

Albanian: Te dua

Amharic: Afekrishalehou

Arabic: Ana Behibak (to a male)
Ana Behibek (to a female)

Basc: Nere Maitea

Bavarian: I mog di narrisch gern

Bengali: Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi

Berber: Lakh tirikh

Bicol: Namumutan ta ka

Bulgarian: Obicham te

Cambodian: kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah
Bon sro lanh oon

Cantonese: Ngo oi ney

Catalan: T'estim (mallorcan)
T'estime (valencian)
T'estimo (catalonian)
T'estim molt (I love you a lot)

Chinese: Wo ie ni (Manderin, Cantonese)

Croatian: Volim te (most common), or
Ja te volim (less common)

Czech: miluji te

Danish: Jeg elsker dig

Dutch: Ik hou van jou
Ek heb je lief

Estonian: Mina armastan sind

Esperanto: Mi amas vin

Persian (Farsi): Tora dust midaram

Flemish: Ik zie oe geerne

Finnish: Minä rakastan sinua

French: Je t'aime

Friesian: Ik bin fereale op dy
Ik ha^ld fan dy (Most commonly used phrase) (the ^ is above the a)

Gaelic: Ta gra agam ort

German: Ich liebe Dich
I mog Di ganz arg! (Suebian: South German dialect)

Greek: S' ayapo

Gujarati(a dialect of India): Tane Prem Karoo Choo

Hausa: Ina sonki

Hebrew: aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male)
aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female)

Hindi: Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon

Hokkien: Wa ai lu

Hopi: Nu' umi unangwa'ta

Hungarian: Szeretlek te'ged

Icelandic: ?g elska ßig

Indonesian: Saya cinta padamu
Saya Cinta Kamu
Aku cinta kamu

Italian: Ti amo

Irish: taim i' ngra leat

Japanese: Kimi o ai shiteru

Kazakh: Men seny jaksy kuremyn

Kiswahili: Nakupenda

Korean: Tangsinul sarang ha yo

Kurdish: Ez te hezdikhem

Latin: Te amo
Vos amo

Lao: Khoi huk chau

Latvian: Es Tev milu

Lingala: Nalingi yo

Lithuanian: Ash miliu tave

Luo: Aheri

Madrid lingo: Me molas, tronca

Malay/Indonesian: Saya cintakan awak(awak=kamu=you)
Aku sayang engkau (engkau=kamu=you)

Malay: Saya cintamu
Saya sayangmu

Maltese: Inhobbok!

Mandarin: Wo ai ni

Mohawk: Konoronhkwa

Navajo: Ayor anosh'ni

Ndebele: Niyakutanda

Norwegian: Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal)
Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk)

Pakistani: Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon

Persian: Tora dost daram

Philipino/Tagalog: Mahal Kita
Iniibig Kita

Polish: Ja Cie Kocham or Kocham Cie (Pronounced Yacha kocham)

Portuguese: Eu te amo

Romanian: Te iu besc

Russian: Ya lyublyu tebya
Ya vas lyublyu

Scot Gaelic: Tha gra\dh agam ort

Serbian: Volim te (most common), or
Ja te volim" (less common)

Shona: Ndinokuda

Sioux: Techihhila

Slovak: lubim ta

Slovene: ljubim te (??????)

Spanish: Te amo

Swahili: Nakupenda

Swedish: Jag älskar dig

Swiss-German: Ch'ha di gärn

Tagalog/Philipino: Mahal Kita
Iniibig Kita

Taiwanese: Gwa ai lee
Tamil Naan Unnai Kadhalikiren

Thai: Phom Rak Khun
Ch'an Rak Khun

Tunisian: Ha eh bak

Turkish: Seni seviyorum!

Urdu: Mein Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon
Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai

Vietnamese: Anh ye^u em (man to woman)
Em ye^u anh (woman to man)
Toi yeu em

Vlaams: Ik hou van jou

Welsh: 'Rwy'n dy garu di.
Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi)

Yiddish: Ikh hob dikh lib

Zazi: Ezhele hezdege (sp?)

Zuni: Tom ho' ichema

Source: http://www.squidoo.com/iluvu

The 'Number Nine (9)' Chronicle

2008-02-22T09:17:00.000+08:00

Facts about the number '9':

In Math,

It is the first composite lucky number.
Nine is the highest single-digit number in the decimal system.
a Motzkin number.
the second non-unitary square prime (3²)
A polygon with nine sides is called an enneagon (technically) or nonagon (in common usage).
binary complement of number six
The Enneagram is one system of knowledge which shows the correspondence between the 9 integers and the circle.

In Science,

Nine is the atomic number of fluorine.
Before 2006 (when Pluto was officially designated as a non-planet), there were nine planets in the solar system.
In Physiology, a human pregnancy normally lasts nine months.

In Religion,

Important Buddhist rituals usually involve nine monks.
The first nine days of the Hebrew month of Av are collectively known as "The Nine Days" (Tisha HaYamim), and are a period of semi-mourning leading up to Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of Av on which both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed.
Nine is a significant number in Norse Mythology. Odin hung himself on an ash tree for nine days to learn the runes.
Jesus healed ten lepers; nine did not even thank Him.

In Chinese culture,

Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ) is considered a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds the same as the word "longlasting" (久 pinyin jiǔ).
Nine is strongly associated with the Chinese dragon, a symbol of magic and power. There are nine forms of the dragon, it is described in terms of nine attributes, and it has nine children It has 9×13 scales, 9×9 being yang (masculine, or bad influence) and 9×4 being yin (feminine, or good influence).
The dragon often symbolizes the Emperor, and the number nine can be found in many ornaments in the Forbidden City. The circular altar platform (Earthly Mount) of the Temple of Heaven has one circular marble plate in the center, surrounded by a ring of nine plates, then by a ring of 18 plates, and so on, for a total of nine rings, with the outermost having 81=9×9 plates.

In Music,

In music theory a ninth is the ninth note of a musical scale or the interval between the first note and the ninth. A ninth chord is a chord with a ninth.
Bands with the number nine in their name include Nine, Stroke 9, Nine Days, Nine Inch Nails and Alice Nine.
The Beatles released a song called "Revolution 9" which appears on The White Album (more properly known as The Beatles); its principal vocal feature is a voice repeating, "Number nine...number nine...number nine..." John Lennon, the primary composer of "Revolution 9", also released a solo recording entitled "#9 Dream".

In Sport,

Nine ball is the standard professional pocket billiards variant played in the United States.
In baseball, nine represents the right fielder's position.
Famed football(soccer) player Ronaldo (Brazilian men's national team) wears #9.
The number worn by NBA player Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs, MVP of the 2007 NBA Finals.

In other fields,

Nine judges sit on the United States Supreme Court.
The word "K-9" pronounces the same as canine and is used in many U.S. police departments to denote the unit working with police dog.
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the digit 9 is called "Novenine".
Channel 9, an Australian free-to-air television station
The name of the area called Kowloon in Hong Kong literally means: nine dragons.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine

An Iota of Interest

2008-02-21T14:47:00.000+08:00

Many people are getting hooked with this blogging or blog thing and I consider myself as one of them. I have visited many blogs of different interests before and have read their contents. Some were good, others were not that pleasing and some were simply made just to earn an extra income out of this amazing creation (hmmm.. what do you think???).

Each blogger has its own way or strategy on how to make the blog attractive and more interesting to read. I said to myself that I'll be making my own blog someday. At last, after months of long wait, the poor internet connection in my workplace has pushed me or motivated me to create a blog. Hahah! What an irony?! Well, I guess I should not waste my time chatting with my busy fellows in the office every time we experience this internet connection problems or any other interruptions. Making my own blog is definitely the key to drive away the upset and boring moments.

This is the first time that I'll be creating a blog and this is my first post. Expect for more blog posts here that features any topic under the sun. :-)