Quotes that inspire...

From Mahatma Gandhi:

• You must be the change you want to see in the world.
• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
• As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
• Hate the sin, love the sinner.

From Mark Twain:

• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
• He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
• Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
• Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
• Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
• I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
• Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
• One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
• Most people regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
• A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on.
• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles ... by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it.
• Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
• Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people will always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
• There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
• The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
• It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.
• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
• The secret to success in life is to make your vocation your vacation.
• I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
• Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
• Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
• If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
• When in doubt, tell the truth.
• It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
• Golf is a good walk spoiled.
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
• It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one, and not deserve it.
  Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
• There are some people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
• I am glad I did it, partly because it was well worth it, and chiefly because I shall never have to do it again.
• The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
• Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
• The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
• The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

From Winston Churchill:

• I never worry about action, but only inaction.
• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
• Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
• There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
• Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
• Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
• Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conversative, has no brains.
• I like things to happen; and if they don't happen, I like to make them happen.
• When I look back on all the worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
• I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
• There is only one duty, one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
• Perfectionism spells paralysis.
• If you are going through hell, keep going.
• A fanatic is one who changes his mind and won't change the subject.
• There are plenty of good ideas if only they can be backed with the power of action.
• I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
• It is no use in saying, "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.