20 Inspirational Quotes to Live your Life By 29/06/11

Wise men and women have provided us with records of some of their words. We can learn a lot by listening to, and heeding them.

Quotes by Women

1. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
2. “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
3. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
4. 4. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.”  – Mary Anne Radmacher

Quotes by Scientists

1. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
2. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
3. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein
4. “I haven’t failed…I’ve found ten thousand ways that don’t work.” – Thomas Edison

Quotes by Spiritual Leaders

1. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2. “My life is my message.” – Gandhi
3. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. – Sri Ram
4. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” – The Apostle Paul
5. “History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.” – John Eliot

Quotes by Political Leaders

1. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln
2. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
3. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston S. Churchill
4. “I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.” —William Penn

Quotes by Poets & Writers

1. “Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.” — Richard Bach
2. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman
3. “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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