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Inspirational Quotes To Brighten Your Day

Since I was a young girl I have loved quotes. I always jotted down the new ones I found
when I read.

Sufing the net, I have discovered thousands of inspirational quotes which I also keep
in my Notebook.

Here I am listing some of my favorites.

Seasons,
Procrastination,
Hope,
Spending,
Reading,
Abundance
Poverty
Ignorance
Opportunity
Kindness

I also added some excellent Albert Einstein and Gandhi quotes.

Hope you enjoy them!

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Cool Quotes On Procrastination
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Quotes On Hope

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
-Zig Ziglar-

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
- Source Unknown-

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Quotes From Goethe

"If every man would sweep his own doorstep, the world would be clean."

-Goethe-

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

- GOETHE-

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Cool Quotes On Procrastination

The trouble is that you think you have time.
-Jack Kornfield-

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."
-Spanish Proverb-

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
- Korean Proverb-

Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
- Korean Proverb-

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard,
just keep putting off doing it."
Olin Miller

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."
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Blogging With Quotes

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9 Inspiring Quotes From Taxi Cab Passengers: Within a week of my encounter with the North American man, I had amassed a vast amount of quotes, proverbs and inspirational phrases, as well as, unexpectedly finding myself on the receiving end of a repetitive question from passengers.
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Let Freedom Ring: Inspirational Memorial Day Quotes: We've put together a few quotes to help evoke gratefulness for the freedom we are so blessed to have. What do you do to celebrate our freedom and remember those who fought to honor it? "Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Quotes On Hope

HOPE

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses
his reputation for veracity.
-Robert G. Ingersoll-

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work
if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.
-Martin Luther-

Hope! Of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.
-Abraham Cowley-

Hope

QUOTES ON LYING

A good memory is needed after one has lied.
-Pierre Corneille -

I'm not upset that you lied to me,
I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask,
'Where have I gone wrong?'
Then a voice says to me,
'This is going to take more than one night.'"
- Charles M. Schulz -

Quotes About Heart

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
-John Andrew Holmes-

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
- Rumi-
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
-Aristotle -

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Interesting Quotes On Politics

"Crime does not pay ... as well as politics."
-Alfred E. Newman-

"I once said cynically of a politician,
"he'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it."
-Oscar Levant-

"The reason there are so few female politicians is
that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."
-Maureen Murphy -

"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best."
-Will Rogers-

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
-Henry Cate VII-

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Quotes On Mornings

I used to love night best but the older I get the more treasures and hope and joy I find in mornings.
-Terri Guillemets-

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning
- and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.
~John J. Welsh-

Quotes On Spending

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
-Benjamin Franklin-

Never keep up with the Joneses.
Drag them down to your level.
It's cheaper.
-Quentin Crisp -

It`s not your salary that makes you rich, it`s your spending habits.
-Charles A. Jaffe -

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man`s lifetime income which he then spends sending his son to college.
-Bill Vaughan-

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Excellent Albert Einstein Quotes

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Charmaing Quotes On Seasons

Is There Anything More Joyful Than Springtime? Anything More Spectacular Than Autumn?

If I had my life to live over,
I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
I would go to more dances.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds.
I would pick more daisies.
-Nadine Stair -

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
-Albert Camus-

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Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?
-Neltje Blanchan-
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. -Mark Twain-

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
- Doug Larson-">

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QUOTES ON DOING GOOD, VOLUNTEERING

I think volunteerism should be fashionable.
That's my goal: To make volunteering the new black"
-Bon Jovi-

Do your bit of good where you are: it's those little bits of good that overwhelm the
world.
-Bishop Desmond Tutu-

He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
-Confucius-

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Quotes On Reading

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply theways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley-

Read not to contradict and confute,
not to believe and take for granted, not to find
talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
- Francis Bacon-

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."
-Joineriana-

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
~ Austin Phelps ~

"You may have tangible wealth untold. / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. /
Richer than I you can never be - / I had a mother who read to me."

- Strickland Gillilan-

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

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QUOTES ON IGNORANCE

Intolerance, superstition, ignorance-these are easier to acquiere and cultivate than to uproot.
-David S.Landes-

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
- Goethe-

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.
- Konrad Adenauer-

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Quotes On Abundance

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
-FDR-
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
-Wayne Dyer-

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Quotes On Poverty

Poverty is the parent of revolution.
-Aristotle-

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
-Plutarch-

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
-Mahatma Gandhi-

Poor people are not asking for charity.
Charity is not a solution for poverty.
-Dr. Muhammad Yunus-

Poverty in the world is an artificial creation.
It does not belong to the human civilization.
-Dr. Muhammad Yunus-

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty.
The honest rich can never forget it.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton -

The test of our progress in not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much: it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt-

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
-John F. Kennedy-

The richest nation on earth can afford to win the war on poverty.
-Lindon B. Johnson-

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Quotes From Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
-Mahatma Gandhi-

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

-Mahatma Gandhi-

The difference between what we do
and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

-Mahatma Gandhi-

Gandhi

Wise Quotes On Opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-Thomas A Edison -

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot:
but make it hot by striking.
-William B. Sprague-

Fortune favors the brave.
-Publius Terence-

Opportunity

Thoughtful Kind Quotes

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.
A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
-Franklin Roosevelt-

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for kindness.
~Seneca

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
-Blaise Pascal

Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
-James Matthew Barrie-

Kindness

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LittleLindaPinda May 31, 2012 @ 8:44 pm | delete

It is better to catch bees with honey than with vinegar. My mom always taught me that. I don't know who is the original quoter or if I have it correct but I like to live by this. I love many of these quotes. Some made me laugh too.

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LittleTwoTwo Jan 26, 2012 @ 2:31 pm | delete

Great collection of quotes, enjoyed them all ... one of my favourite quotes is
"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
Will Rogers.

Claps for poutine