There's plenty of threads revolving around disrespectful and even morally questionable subjects but I did a search and couldn't find any that were centered around positive and uplifting messages. So here it is!
Post Quotes that are Inspirational, Uplifting, Positive, Educational, or Motivational. Nothing negative in this thread please. There's plenty of that in other threads.
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. - Plutarch
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein
The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. - Yogi Berra
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.... - Martin Luther
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
Never say more than is necessary. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Ghandi
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. - Gerald J. Simmons
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now." - Joseph Ray
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. - Helen Keller
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. - Johnette Napolitano
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. - Shakespeare
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson
That which does not kill you makes you stronger. - Neitzsche
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. - Richard Cech
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. - ???
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. - Jules Renard
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. - Elbert Hubbard
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. - Henry W. Longfellow
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. - Dennis Waitley
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharal Nehru
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." - Edward Bulwer Lytton
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. - Vince Lombardi
The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. - Seneca
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
They can because they think they can. - Virgil
No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca
He who hesitates is lost. - Proverb
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. - Sir J. Stephen
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. - Kal Menninger
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin H. Chapin
Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach
To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler
The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins? - Edgar Alan Poe
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - La Bruyere
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. - Brian Tracy
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. - Alexander Chase
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
That's a good start. Post more if you got 'em.
Post Quotes that are Inspirational, Uplifting, Positive, Educational, or Motivational. Nothing negative in this thread please. There's plenty of that in other threads.
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. - Plutarch
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein
The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. - Henry Ward Beecher
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. - Yogi Berra
What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.... - Martin Luther
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
Never say more than is necessary. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Ghandi
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. - Gerald J. Simmons
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now." - Joseph Ray
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us. - Helen Keller
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. - Johnette Napolitano
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. - Shakespeare
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson
That which does not kill you makes you stronger. - Neitzsche
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. - Richard Cech
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. - ???
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson
Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. - Jules Renard
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. - Thomas Fuller
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. - Elbert Hubbard
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. - Henry W. Longfellow
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. - Dennis Waitley
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharal Nehru
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." - Edward Bulwer Lytton
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. - Vince Lombardi
The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. - Seneca
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
They can because they think they can. - Virgil
No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca
He who hesitates is lost. - Proverb
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. - Sir J. Stephen
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. - Kal Menninger
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin H. Chapin
Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach
To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler
The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins? - Edgar Alan Poe
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - La Bruyere
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. - Brian Tracy
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little. - Alexander Chase
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
That's a good start. Post more if you got 'em.
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