"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree" - Jim Rohn … [Read more...]
Inspirational Quotes to Ponder and Share
We love inspirational quotes! These are our hand picked selection of motivational, educational and inspirational quotes for you to ponder and learn from. You can glean so much wisdom from just a few lines. Plus, you get bite sized insight on many different people from all areas of life - from philosophers and scientists to religious leaders and political activists.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell … [Read more...]
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. - Howard Zinn … [Read more...]
I am willing to accept that there might be rare circumstances where applications of force might be effective. - Howard Zinn … [Read more...]
"Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better." - Larry Winget … [Read more...]
"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy." - Denis Waitley … [Read more...]
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill … [Read more...]
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha … [Read more...]
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. - Howard Zinn … [Read more...]
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." - Buddha … [Read more...]
"The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do." - Brian Tracy … [Read more...]
"You are so young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as judge of the highest matters." - Plato … [Read more...]
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." - Leo Rosten … [Read more...]
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
"You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision." - Bob Proctor … [Read more...]
"Control is never achieved when sought after directly. It is the surprising outcome of letting go." - James Arthur Ray … [Read more...]
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. - Marcus Aurelius … [Read more...]
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." - Dalai Lama … [Read more...]
{EAV_BLOG_VER:5dd1626884cb366d}One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. - Howard Zinn … [Read more...]
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." - Socrates … [Read more...]
"No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts." - Bob Proctor … [Read more...]
"Each time we face a fear and step into adversity our self-esteem grows, and each time we get a success behind us, we become more confident of overcoming the next hurdle. In the end, with a series of successes under our belts, we will understand that there is nothing that we cannot do." - Geoff Thompson … [Read more...]
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments. - Confucius … [Read more...]
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." - Michael Altshuler … [Read more...]
"Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one-tenth of the energy you put into complaining and put it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out." - Randy Pausch … [Read more...]
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." - Jim Rohn … [Read more...]
"We must not, like the frog in the well who imagines that the universe ends with the wall surrounding his well, think that our religion alone represents the whole Truth and all others are false." - Mahatma Gandhi … [Read more...]
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." - Robert M. Pirsig … [Read more...]
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
"All growth requires that we stretch beyond where we've been before." - Dan Sullivan … [Read more...]
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. - Howard Zinn … [Read more...]
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. - Noam Chomsky … [Read more...]
"Everyone is capable of doing extraordinary things, each in his own way. Some are perfectly happy doing simple things in good spirits; others, however, concentrate on details. We are all different, and it really doesn’t matter if you focus on space travel or work in the fields. What is important is to do what you really want." - Alexander Kemurdzhian … [Read more...]
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. - Howard Zinn … [Read more...]
"Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding." - Marcus Aurelius … [Read more...]
Is there equality before the law? At every stage of the judicial process - facing the policeman, appearing in court, being freed on bond, being sentenced by the judge - the poor person is treated worse than the rich, the black treated worse than the white, the politically or personally odd character is treated worse than the orthodox. - Howard Zinn … [Read more...]
