Motivational Quotes

Submitted by VernalFire on Sun, 09/21/2008 at 5:41am.

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in things creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love.

The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now  and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Some say that opportunity knocks only once. This is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. 

Have patience, all things are difficult before they become easy.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring  peace to others.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do, thats the difference between success and failure.

A smile is the universal language.

To question a wise man is the beginning of wisdom.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

» posted in VernalFire's Blog
 

Comments:

by SkyWalke - 5 days ago
Gaberke Slovenia
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i like :)

by kjmw - 2 months ago
Georgia United States
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Our greatest achievement is rising when we fall.

by Novice1100 - 3 months ago
China
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- My Chinese Fortune Cookie -

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.Smile

by diamond4ever - 6 months ago
egypt Egypt
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very good ones specially the one about opportunity..i agree with it

by ADK - 14 months ago
Santa Clarita, CA United States
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I agree. : )

ADK

by hicetnunc - 14 months ago
Neuilly-sur-Seine France
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Inspiring list...

 

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