Top 100 Inspirational Quotes
Posted by admin on Jan 22, 2008
Inspirational Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
1. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
2. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
3. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Inspirational Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
5. We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope.
6. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
7. What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”
8. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
9. The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
10. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Friedrich Nietzsche Inspirational Quotes
11. Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882
12. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
13. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Albert Einstein Inspirational Quotes
14. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
15. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
16. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
17. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
18. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
19. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
20. Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts..
Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain
21. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
22. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
23. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
24. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
25. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Robert Frost Inspirational Quotes
26. The best way out is always through.
27. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
28. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
29. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
30. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Inspirational Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
31. You must be the change you want to see in the world.
32. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
33. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
34. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
35. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
36. Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
37. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
38. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems”
39. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Rabindranath Tagore Inspirational Quotes
40. By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
41. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
42. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
43. If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
Inspirational Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
44. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
45. If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. …Everyone says, “Woe unto you people!!” Who says, “Woe unto me that I cannot help you?” The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!
46. Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
47. The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.
Winston Churchill Inspirational Quotes
48. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
49. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
50. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Inspirational Quotes by Aristotle
51. Hope is a waking dream.
52. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Voltaire Quotes
53. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
54. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
55. Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Michael Jordan Inspirational Quotes
56. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
57. If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
E. Joseph Cossman
58. Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
Anonymous
59. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ford
60. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford
61. I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
62. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Goethe
63. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
64. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
Truman Capote Inspirational Quotes
65. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
66. Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
67. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
68. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
Isaac B. Singer
69. Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.
Unknown
70. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
71. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Unknown
72. Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Unknown
73. Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Dan Stanford
74. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
75. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
76. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
77. In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar
78. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
79. If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Unknown
80. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Inspirational Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
81. Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
Eleanor Roosevelt
82. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
83. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
84. The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.
Margo Kaufman
85. The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan
86. I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.
John Cage
87. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach
88. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
89. Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Machiavelli.
90. “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard
91. A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
92. “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
Sydney Harris
93. Do first things first, and second things not at all.
Peter Drucker.
94. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
Foster’s Law
95. We see things not as they are, but as we are.
H. M. Tomlinson
96. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
97. There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morleys.
98. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
99. If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud
100. Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
Bill Hicks
Inspiration takes many forms. Maybe inspiration your favorite movie quote. Maybe its a famous person with a disability. Maybe you share a celebrity birthday with one of your favorite movie stars. Whatever gets you out of bed in the morning can be considered inspiration. For the rest of us, its strong coffee and a kick in th pants!
Top 50 Atheism Quotes
Posted by admin on Jan 14, 2008
George Carlin Quotes
1. Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
2. Atheism: A non-prophet organization.
3. I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
4. Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
6. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Albert Einstein Quotes
7. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of “humility.” This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
8. It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. … Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein, “Religion and Science”, New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930
9. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Gandhi Quotes
10. The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.
Mohandas K Gandhi, Young India, July 7, 1950, quoted from Laird Wilcox, ed., “The Degeneration of Belief”
11. I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mark Twain Quotes
12. “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
Mark Twain
13. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
Mark Twain
14. What God lacks is convictions — stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something — not try to be everything.
15. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain, quoted from Curmudgeon-Online
16. “In God We Trust.” I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true.
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
17. Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
18. We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
19. The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
Benjamin Franklin, the incompatibility of faith and reason, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1758)
20. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
Voltaire Quotes
21. If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.
Voltaire
22. Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
Stephen Hawking Quotes
23. Black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking, NATURE, 1975
24. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There’s not much personal about the laws of physics.
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes
25. Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
26. The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Christopher Hitchens Quotes
27. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Christopher Hitchens
28. Christopher Hitchens On Jerry Falwell: If you gave Falwell an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.
Sigmund Freud Quotes
29. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
30. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
31. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
32. Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.
Blaise Pascal Quote
32. You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend.
Richard Jeni Quote
34. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg Quote
35. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
Delos B. McKown Quote
36. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Edward Gibbon
37. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
Robert Ingersoll
38. The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.
Huang Po
39. Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli Quote
40. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Quote from Unknown
41. If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
Dave Barry
42. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
- Epicurus Quotes
43. The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Eric Hoffer Quotes
44. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher
45. There’s a phrase we live by in America: “In God We Trust”. It’s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.
46. If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
Baron D’Holbach, cited in Jonathan Miller. (2004). A Brief History of Disbelief [TV-Series].
47. If I thought the Jews killed God, I’d worship the Jews.
Bill Hicks
48. Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Isaac Asimov
49. A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
José Bergamín
50. One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke Quotes