Love Quotes

                                        Love Quotes
"Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies"
(Swedish Proverb)

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
(Moliere)

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
(Buddha)

"That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
(William Wordsworth)

"Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life"
(Rumi)

"Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers."
(Kevin - St. Elmo's Fire)

"Nothing is sweeter than love, Nothing stronger, Nothing higher, Nothing wider, Nothing more pleasant, Nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God"
(Thomas a Kempis)

"Our family is a circle of love and strength.With every birth and every union, the circle grows. Every joy shared adds more love. Every obstacle faced together makes the circle stronger"
(unknown)

"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the wedding cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up."
(Ogden Nash )

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
(Michael Leunig)

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver"
(Barbara De Angelis)

"We love because it's the only true adventure"
(Nikki Giovanni)

"A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished."
(Zsa Zsa Gabor)

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
(Hillaire Belloc)

"Come live with me and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands and crystal brooks, With silken lines and silver hooks."
(John Donne)

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
(Euripides )

"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish to death do us part"
(Book of Common Prayer)

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself"
(James Boswell)

"Friendship is Love without his wings!" "
(Lord Byron)

"Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts"
(William Shakespeare)

"Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought"
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Other men have seen angels, But I have seen thee, And thou art enough"
(G. Moore)

"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"
(Albert Einstein)

"God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts...He will come to warm our hearts with perfect love, not only for Him but also for our neighbor, and the cold of him who hates the good will flee before the heat of His countenance"
(St. Seraphim of Sarov)

"Jealousy: that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."
(Henry Havelock Ellis)

"And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun"
(William Shakespeare)

"I've already wasted my whole life. I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you. I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit"
(Li Mu Bai- character in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal"
(headstone in Ireland)

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
(Eric Fromme)

"I am in love with this green Earth."
(Charles Lamb)

"Flowers are love's truest language."
(Park Benjamin)
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"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure."
Alice Hoffman, 'Here on Earth')

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous"
(Ingrid Bergman)

"Love is like an hour glass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties"
(Jules Renord)

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness"
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love"
(Lao-Tzu)

"Women are made to be loved, not understood"
(Oscar Wilde)

"Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart."
(Charles Dickens)

"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
(Abraham Lincoln)

"Never put anyone out of your heart... "
(Neem Karoli Baba)

"From the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks."
(Jesus Christ)

"Two souls with but a single thought,Two heart that beat as one."
(Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen)

"Everyone is the age of their heart."
(Guatemalan Saying)

                                         Love Quotations and Sayings

"Love is a master key which opens the gate of happiness"
(Oliver Wedell Holmes)

"What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love? "
(William Wordsworth)

"All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in
which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die"
(Harold Clemp)

"Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another."
(Harold Clemp) 

"So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord. "
(Emanuel Swedenborg)

"When we freely forgive others who have hurt us, our angel brings us a special blessing of love from God."
(Eileen Elias Freeman)

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a heaven in hell's despair"
(William Blake)

"The vital importance of love is to love all life without qualms, without wisdom or religion being uppermost in the mind of the lover"
(The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Bk1)

"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
(Aymes Repplier)

"Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything"
(Harold Clemp)

"Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred onfuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illuminates it."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

"La vita e bella; la vita e amore. Life is beautiful; life is love."
(From the movie "Life Is Beautiful")

"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
(Rumi)

"And the Angel said, "I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself, but by love."
(Leo Tolstoy)

"Abundance flourishes in a grateful heart; gratitude is the secret of love."
(Harold Klemp)

"Most people think they are searching for truth when they are really searching for love "
(Harold Clemp)

"The giving of love is an education in itself."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

"All you need is love."
(Lennon/Mc-Cartney)

"Courage is like love - it must have hope to nourish it."
(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
(Alphonse De Lamartine)

"God's Love is always working to help Soul find its way back home"
(Harold Clemp)

"Hungry not only for bread but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection. "
(Mother Teresa)


"When the power of Love overcomes the love of power the world will know Peace "
(Jimi Hendrix)


"Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb."
(Stephen Covey)


" Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."
(Mother Teresa)

"Where there is great love , there are alwaysmiracles"
(Willa Cather)

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Proverbs 23:22 
“Listen to your father, who
gave you life, and do not despise your
mother when she is old.” (NIV)

Proverbs 1:8-9
 “Listen, my son, to your
father’s instruction, and do not forsake your
mother’s teaching. They will be a garland to
grace your head and a chain to adorn your
neck.” (NIV)

1 Timothy 5:1-2
 “Never speak harshly to an
older man, but appeal to him respectfully as
you would to your own father. Talk to
younger men as you would to your own
brothers. Treat older women as you would
your mother, and treat younger women with
all purity as you would your own
sisters.” (NLT)

James 2:14-17 
“What good is it, my brothers,
if a man claims to have faith but has no
deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a
brother or sister is without clothes and daily
food. If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish
you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does
nothing about his physical needs, what good
is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is
not accompanied by action, is dead.” (NIV)

Joshua 1: 7-9
 “Be strong and very
courageous. Be careful to obey all the law
my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from
it to the right or to the left, that you may be
successful wherever you go. Do not let this
Book of the Law depart from your mouth;
meditate on it day and night, so that you may
be careful to do everything written in it.
Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and
courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be
discouraged, for the Lord your God will be
with you wherever you go.” (NIV)

2 Timothy 2:22-25
“Have no part at all in the wrong things that
young men like to do. Believe. Have love.
Follow what is right. Live at peace. Do these
things along with others who have a clean
heart and talk to God.
Keep out of foolish quarrels. You know that
they start fights.The Lord’s servant must not
fight. But he must be kind to all people. He
must be a good teacher to them. He must be
patient with them.
When he corrects those who are against him,
he must do it in a gentle way. It may be that
God will turn their hearts to know what is
true. ” (WE)

Proverbs 1:10
 “My son, if sinners entice
you, do not give in to them.” (NIV)

Romans 13:13
 “Because we belong to the
day, we must live decent lives for all to see.
Don’t participate in the darkness of wild
parties and drunkenness, or in sexual
promiscuity and immoral living, or in
quarreling and jealousy.” (NIV)

Matthew 26:41
 “Watch and pray so that you
will not fall into temptation. The spirit is
willing, but the body is weak.” (NIV)

1 Corinthians 10:13
 “No temptation has
seized you except what is common to man.
And God is faithful; he will not let you be
tempted beyond what you can bear. But
when you are tempted, he will also provide a
way out so that you can stand up under
it.” (NIV)

Proverbs 8:32-33
 “Now then, my sons, listen
to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not
ignore it.” (NIV)

Jeremiah 1:4-9 
“The word of the LORD
came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in
the womb I knew you, before you were born
I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet
to the nations. ” “Ah, Sovereign LORD,” I
said, “I do not know how to speak; I am only
a child.” But the LORD said to me, “Do not
say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go to
everyone I send you to and say whatever I
command you. Do not be afraid of them, for
I am with you and will rescue you,” declares
the LORD. Then the LORD reached out his
hand and touched my mouth and said to me,
“Now, I have put my words in your
mouth.”(NIV)

1 Samuel 2:18 
“Samuel was ministering
before the LORD -a boy wearing a linen
ephod.” (NIV)

2 Kings 22:1-2
 “Josiah was eight years old
when he became king, and he reigned in
Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s
name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she
was from Bozkath. He did what was right in
the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the
ways of his father David, not turning aside to
the right or to the left.” (NIV)

Song Of Solomon 8:4 
(The Message)
“Oh, let me warn you, sisters in Jerusalem:
Don’t excite love, don’t stir it up,
until the time is ripe—and you’re ready.”

Proverbs 20:11
 “Even a child is known by
his actions, by whether his conduct is pure
and right.” (NIV)

Proverbs 28:24 
“He who robs his father or
mother and says, “It’s not wrong”— he is
partner to him who destroys.” (NIV)

Mark 12:29-31 
“The most important one,”
answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the
Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all
your soul and with all your mind and with
all your strength.’The second is this: ‘Love
your neighbor as yourself.’There is no
commandment greater than these.” (NIV)

Micah 6:8 
“He has showed you, O man, what
is good. And what does the LORD require of
you? To act justly and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God.” (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 12:1 -3
 “Don’t let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, ‘Life is not pleasant anymore.’ Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky. Remember him before your legs—
the guards of your house—start to tremble; and before your shoulders—the strong men —stoop. Remember him before your teeth— your few remaining servants—stop grinding; and before your eyes—the women looking through the windows—see dimly.” (NLT)

Proverbs 3:5-6
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” (NIV)

Jeremiah 29:11 
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (NIV) 1 Timothy 4:12 “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.” (NIV)
Psalm 127:1
“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman walketh but in vain.” (KJV)

Proverbs 19:21
“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (NIV)

Romans 8:28
“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (NIV)

Psalm 119:9 
“How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to yourword.” (NIV)

Isaiah 40:29-31 
“He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” (NIV)

Proverbs 20:1 
“Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.” (NIV)

Proverbs 23:19-21
 “Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path. Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.” (NIV)

1 Peter 4:3
“You’ve already put in your time in that God-ignorant way of life, partying night after night, a drunken and profligate life. Now it’s time to be done with it for good. Of course, your old friends don’t understand why you don’t join in with the old gang anymore. But you don’t have to give an account to them. They’re the ones who will be called on the carpet—and before God himself.” (The Message)

Psalm 119:105
 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (NIV)

Psalm 71:5 
“For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth.” (NIV)

Exodus 20:12
 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.” (NIV)

1 Samuel 15:23
“Rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols.” (NLT) Ephesians 6:1-3 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother—which is the first commandment with a promise— that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy
long life on the earth.” (NIV)

Proverbs 17:25 
“A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the one who borehim.” (NIV)

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Inspirational and Motivational Bible Verses About Strength

                            Inspirational and Motivational Bible Verses About Strength

Philippians 4:13
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
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Isaiah 40:29
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
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Psalm 119:28
My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
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Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
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Isaiah 40:31
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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Mark 12:30
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
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2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for
Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Psalm 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
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Nehemiah 8:10
Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."
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Psalm 22:19
But you, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
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Psalm 28:7-8
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
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Psalm 118:14
The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
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Isaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation."
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Isaiah 33:2
O LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.
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Isaiah 40:29-31
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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Habakkuk 3:19
The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
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Ephesians 3:16
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

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                                               Inspiration through hope 2

Philippians 1:21-23
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

Philippians 3:20-21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Inspirational Because of God’s Love


Romans 8:37-39 
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Inspirational and Motivational Quotes from the Bible

                                                Inspiration Through Hope

Jeremiah 29:11
 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Romans 15:13
 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. Inspiration and Strength

Isaiah 41:10
 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Psalm 18:32-34
 the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless. He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of
bronze.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Inspiration Through God’s Promises

Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations

Psalm 32:8 I
 will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

John 6:47
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Inspiration Because of Our Future In Heaven

1 Corinthians 2:7-9
But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But,
as it is written,”What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God
has prepared for those who love him”

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight–it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: When faced with a challenge, your size is not as important as having a strong and tenacious spirit.

Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Don’t give up now: you are probably closer to success than you think.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: We learn by doing, not the other way around.

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Rather than following others, do your own thing and let others follow you.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Be brave and take risks rather than living a safe, sheltered life. If you always play it safe, you will probably regret it later.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Trying and not succeeding is not failure; it is part of the process of discovering what works.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Whether you are able to recover from defeat says more about you than whether you are defeated in the first place.

That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Events that hurt you or try you emotionally strengthen you by teaching you lessons and improving your ability to deal with trying times in the future.

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Success is not as sweet if you’ve never experienced failure. 

You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.

Winston Churchill

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: The value of your life has nothing to do with how much money you earn; it is determined by what you give to others.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Good things happen not because of “luck,” but because you work hard to get them.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: A dream that exists only in your mind is not useless. Use it to create the reality you want.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: You must either be content with your life as it is or take action to change it.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Focus on your strengths instead of your weaknesses.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Proverb

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: If you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you too.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: True leaders are not just competent at what they do; they make good decisions about what to do.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one’s feet.

Lao Tzu

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Great things come from humble beginnings.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Emily P. Bissell

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: This quote is best summed up by the proverb “Actions speak louder than words.”

Motivational Quotes

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. 

Nicholas Charles Trublet

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. 
Michel de Montaigne

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William R. Alger

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. - Sir Henry Wotton

Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. 
Peter Anderson

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. 
Vicesimus Knox

A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.
William B. Sprague

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. 
Chinese Proverb

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. 
Arabic Proverb

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived.Anonymous

Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. 

Unknown

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book.
Pierre Boyle

A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.
Thomas Fuller

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.
Joseph Joubert

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.S. T. Coleridge

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Benjamin Franklin

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know the great men of your age.Baltasar Gracián

A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.
Seneca

Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.
Samuel Smiles

he diamond may adorn royalty, regardless of personal worth; but jewels of thought render even poverty illustrious and sublime.Gems for the Fireside

There is only one categorical imperative: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law.
Immanuel Kant

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash.
Simmons

Human success is a quotation from overhead.
Charles H. Parkhurst 

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.
St. Evremond

Few maxims are true from every point of view.
Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargue

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Sir J. Mackintosh

A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty.
Erasmus

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up.Oliver Wendell Holmes

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
Tryon Edwards