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Quotes That Will Inspire You

ADVICE

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

BY: ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life:
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
(letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825)

BY:THOMAS JEFFERSON

ARGUMENTS

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
BY:DANIEL DENNETT

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
BY:GAY HENDRICKS

Argument are often like melodramas--they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
BY:GAY HENDRICKS

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to the authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
BY:LEONARDO DA VINCI

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
BY:MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH:

BEAUTY

Joy is the best makeup.
BY:ANNE LAMOTT

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
BY:HELEN KELLER

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
BY: JOHN RUSKIN

CONFIDENCE

If you think you can, you can.
And if you think you can't, you're right.
Also attributed to Mary Kay Ash
BY:HENRY FORD

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By think that other people are inferior to oneself.
By:VIRGINIA WOOLF

CHRISTMAS

Christmas is not a time nor season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of christmas.
BY:CALVIN COOLIDGE

Happy, happy christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
BY:CHARLES DICKENS

DREAMS

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
BY:DOM HELDER CAMARA

Nothing happens unless we first dream.
BY: CARL SANDBURG

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
BY: ANATOLE FRANCE

ENCOURAGEMENT

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
BY: ALENXANDRA GRAHAM BELL

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
BY: JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

GOALS

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
BY: ANNE FRANK

Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.
BY: CARL SCHURZ

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
BY: HENRY DAVID THOREAU

If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost.
BY: HERB COHEN

MARRIAGE

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
BY: AMY BLOOM

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
BY: BILL COSBY

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
BY: DICK GREGORY

WORRY

There is no use worrying about things over which you have no control, and if you have control, you can do something about them instead of worrying.
BY:STANLEY C. ALLYN

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
BY:SWEDISH PROVERB

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be.
BY: RUMI

Quotes By King Solomon

Wisdom

Death is waiting for anyone, who wanders away from good sense.

If you want to say out trouble be careful of what you say.

Don't try to talk sense to a fool;he can't appeciate it.

Truth, wisdom,learning and good sense - these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.

Be wise is better than being strong, yes knowledge is more important than strenght.

Honestly

What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy it like the finest food,but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand.

The riches you get by dishonesty soon disappear,but not before they lead you into the jaws of death.

Be kind and honest and you will live a long life, others will respect you and treat you fairly.

Gossip

Gossip is tasty - how will love to swallon it.

A gossip can never keep a secret.stay away from people who talk too much.

Gossip brings anger just as surely as the north wind brings rain.

Without woods fire goes out, without gossip, quarrelling stops.

Don't be envious of evil people, and don't try to make friend with them.

Gossip is spread by wicked people, they stir up trouble and break up friendship.

Lazy

Lazy people who refuse to work are only killing themselves;all they do is think about what they would like to have.

Lazy people stay at home :they say a lion might eat them if they go outside.

Have a nap and sleep if you want to.fold your hands and rest awhile, but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.

Some people are too lazy to put food in their own mounth.

Be lazy if you want to; sleep on, but you will go hungry.

Some people runs themselves by their own stupid actions and then blame the lord.

If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor, keep busy and will have plenty to eat.