Change Publishing - Achieve Your Full Potential - 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life

Edward O. Sisson

"Abraham Lincoln tells somewhere that as a boy when he met an obscure or ambiguous sentence in his reading it threw him into a sort of rage. The fact is that this was simply a form of instinct for clear thinking which is found in every child and manifests itself abundantly to the perception of the good teacher. Far more important than any particular piece of knowledge, than geography or arithmetic or spelling, is this love of clearness in our mental life and instinctive hatred of confusion and obscurity. Let us learn to know what we know clearly and definitely, and also how we know it.

The great intellectual need of men and women in the outer world is not so much more knowledge as it is better knowledge and better thinking. There is much philosophy in the humorist's remark, "It was never my ignorance that done me up, but the things I know'd that wasn't so." The great enemies of intellectual life are superstition, gullibility, and fallacious reasoning. A mere knowledge of facts, important as that is, is no safeguard against these. A conscious desire and resolve to think clearly is the true remedy.

Our national success will depend largely upon the development of a generation of men and women who have formed a love and habit of clear thinking and who can do their part in solving the problems that confront civilized man today.”

Edward O. Sisson

"Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race."

Edward O. Sisson

"In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.”

Edward O. Sisson

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

John Wooden

"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

LawrenceBell

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Winston Churchill

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest."

Dale Carnegie

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

Oprah Winfrey

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Sir Winston Churchill

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."

John D. Rockefeller

"He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have." Jean-Paul Sartre

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand."

Baruch Spinoza

"If it ever came to a choice between compromising my moral principles and the performance of my duties, I know I'd go with my moral principles."

Anonymous

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

Winston Churchill

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

George Horace Lorimer

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

Winston Churchill

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"I kept six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."

Rudyard Kipling

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter."

Henry Fielding

"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."

John Ruskin

"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

John Milton

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself."

Ethel Barrymore

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first." Josiah Quincy

OPPORTUNITY

78 Inspirational Quotes

"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity." Joseph Sugarman

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein

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

Francois Bacon

"Opportunity, often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."

Napoleon Hill

"Opportunities - They are all around us there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it."

Orison Swett Marden

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes

"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

Anonymous

"A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved."

Hindu Proverb

"Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity."

Arabian Proverb

"If God shuts one door, He opens another."

Irish Blessing

"Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.”

Chinese Proverb

"Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door."

Anonymous

"For every problem there is an opportunity."

Anonymous

"Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been."

Anonymous

"It's the man who waits for his ship to come in who's always missing the boat."

Anonymous

"Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly."

Anonymous

"Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers."

Anonymous

"Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught."