Inspirational Archives - Page 28 of 32 - Quote of the day

Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

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Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

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Beautiful

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

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Emile Zola

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

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Change

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

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Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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Courage

Courage is grace under pressure.

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Euripides

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.

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Farrah Gray

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

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Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

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Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

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Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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