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Inspirational Quotes

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."---Samuel Taylor Coleridge,English poet, critic and philosopher

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." --Earl Wilson, columnist and author

“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."---George Iles, author

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."--Carl Sagan, astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

“When you cease to dream, you cease to live."---Malcolm S. Forbes, former publisher of Forbes magazine

“If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut."---Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss-American physicist

“Compassion is the basis of all morality."---Arnold Schopenhauer, German philosopher

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."---Joan Didion, journalist, essayist and novelist

“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy."--Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru

“We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are."--Anais Nin, French writer and diarist

“The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says 'I'; the leader says 'we.' The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says 'go'; the leader says 'let's go!'"---H. Gordon Selfridge, American-British retail magnate

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."---William James, American philosopher

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."---James D. Miles.

“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”-A. Philip Randolph

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."-- Maya Angelou

"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we

categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."-Dorothy Allison

“Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it.”-St. Augustine

"To me, success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world, that I am able to change it in positive ways." --Maxine Hong Kingston, American novelist

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse." --Anne-Sophie Swetchine, Russian-French writer

"It is every person’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it." ---Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" --the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights activist

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." --Barack Obama

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ---Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

--Booker T. Washington, American author, educator and black leader

"Even if our exceptional students/children cannot become lawyers or doctors the depths of their abilities are endless." -Anonymous

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." --Oscar Wilde, Irish writer