I'm looking for some inspirational quotes -I'd like to write them on index cards and reread them when I'm feeling down. Care to share your favorite?

This one has been with me since shortly after d-day:

You did what you knew how to do and when you knew better, you did better. ~Maya Angelou

A couple others I like:

If you think you can't--you won't. - Jerry West

If you always do what you always did; you'll always get what you always got.

E

"It's so easy to laugh. It's so esay to hate. It takes strength to gentle and kind."

"Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends."

<small>[ November 11, 2002, 01:57 PM: Message edited by: whippit ]</small>

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill

There was one by Churchill, about

If you think your in Hell, Keep going., i don't remember it exactly, it was in someones sign line. Have a good day s

Well....

Like Norm said in CHEERS

"It's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm wearing milk-bone underwear"...

OK OK OK...so it's not very ispirational...but it always makes me laugh....

Here's another one if you don't like that one <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

"When a man dies, men stand around him and ask what good things has he left behind.
The Angels ask what good things has he sent before him"

ARK <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

"the best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother"

I believe in this very much and have tried to live my life by it. I think my strong belief in what this quote means to me is the only thing that kept me from just walking away from my M after I found out about my W's A.

Michael

Pain is a given, Misery is optional.

This, or something better. (But you have to let go of "THIS" first.)

This used to be my signature line. I like my new one too.

If you search for happiness through other people, your search will never end. If, on the other hand, you find happiness within yourself, your search will be over and you will be able to share that happiness with those you love and those around you. What a great gift.

Sorry double post <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

<small>[ November 11, 2002, 11:55 PM: Message edited by: happinesswithin ]</small>

Work like you don't need the money ~

Love like you've never been hurt ~

And dance like nobody's watching ~

Well....

Like Norm said in CHEERS

"It's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm wearing milk-bone underwear"...

OK OK OK...so it's not very ispirational...but it always makes me laugh....

Here's another one if you don't like that one <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

"When a man dies, men stand around him and ask what good things has he left behind.
The Angels ask what good things has he sent before him"

ARK <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Hi a favourite of mine among many-
"Some of you say joy is greater than sorrow, and others say Nay sorrow is greater
But I say unto you they are inseperable.
Together they come and when one sts alone with you at your board remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." Kahlil Gibrain
Jante

I used to write quite prolifically. Here's a couple you might enjoy:

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On Aging:

AGE 22:
I FIND MYSELF STAYING UP TOO LATE BECAUSE I AM PARTYING AND HAVING HOT SEX!
AGE 44:
I FIND MYSELF STAYING UP TOO LATE BECAUSE I HAVE A PROJECT DEADLINE AT WORK.
Age 66:
I FIND MYSELF STAYING UP TOO LATE BECAUSE I'M READING A GOOD BOOK THAT I CAN&#8217;T PUT DOWN!
Age 88:
I FIND MYSELF STAYING UP TOO LATE BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE I'LL WAKE-UP WHEN I GO TO SLEEP![/QUOTE}
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The only domain over which I can say I truly rule, starts in my head and ends at my fingertips!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">
On Fate and Freewill:

The only freewill you have is to choose from an infinite number of predetermined outcomes!
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When your anger goes out, withhold your hand. When your hand goes out, withhold your anger.
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<small>[ November 12, 2002, 09:38 AM: Message edited by: Blind Sided ]</small>

THANKS TO ALL!!! I liked them ALL! Feel free to keep adding if you wish! I think we all need something positive in our lives.

Not sure where they came from but I find them usefull to remember:

"Everything happens for a reason (and it is for our benefit)." Learn from what happens and use it in future.

"Always take responsibility, otherwise you hand over responsibility to somebody else and then you feel helpless"

You can feel inferior without being jealous but you can&#8217;t feel jealous without being inferior.

Even dirty water quenches thirst.

Friends can hurt you more than your enemies ever can.

Fear of something happening to you is only rational if you cannot prevent it.

Every crisis has three parts, first, uncovering, second, discovering, third, recovering.

The harm you can experience by confronting anything you fear is not as great as the harm you experience by avoiding it.

Love without sacrifice is heart without soul.

The wisest among us are consumed by nothing.

Knowing what is false can be more important than knowing what is true.

Failure usually teaches you more than success.

Be good and you&#8217;ll be lonesome.

The disdain we have for selfish people always carries with it a trace of admiration and even envy that we ourselves cannot do what we want and take what we want so easily unrestrained and unburdened by conscience.

The costliest form of happiness is that which is purchased at another&#8217;s expense.

The world would be better off with less sainthood and more common decency.

Fortune does not answer to the call of justice, but to the call of whim.

Love usually won&#8217;t kill you, but it does take prisoners.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

-Indian Proverb

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

-Goethe

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

-Daily Bread (submitted by Joanne6030)

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

-Pindar

Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

-Unknown

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

-William Shedd

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

-Charles Spurgeon

We have not come into the world to be a number; we have been created for a purpose, for great things: To love and be loved.

- Mother Teresa

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

- Gurumayi

Commitment isn’t “I will if you will”, Commitment is “I will”.

In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.

- R.H. Grenville

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

- Henri Stendhal

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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

-Og Mandino

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

-Buddha

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

-Cher

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

-Elbert Hubbard

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

-Karl Barth

If you want happiness for an hour-take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day-go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month-get married.
If you want happiness for a year-inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime-help others.

-Chinese Proverb

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.

-C.S. Lewis

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

-Griff Niblack

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

-Arnold Glasgow

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.

-Helen Keller

Work Hard--Do your best--Keep your word--Never get too big for your britches--Trust in God--Have no fear--and Never forget a friend.

-Harry S. Truman

I am too blessed to be stressed!

-Anonymous

Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

-Pierce Harris

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

-Oprah Winfrey

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
The rain falls soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the Palm of His hand.

-An Irish blessing for journey

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

-Abraham Lincoln

The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend.

-Ann Kaiser Stearns

There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so.

-German Proverb

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

-Ann Landers

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

-Maya Angelou

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

-Olin Miller

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.

-Norman Cousins

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful--five years later.

-Phyllis Battelle

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

-Abigail Van Buren

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

-Betty Smith

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

-Islamic saying

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

-Gen. Norman Schwarzkoff

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much is impossible.

-Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

-Bernard Malamud

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.

-Executive Speechwriter Newsletter

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

-Gaylord Nelson

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.

-Polish Proverb

Two kinds of people on earth can be seen: the people who lift and the people who lean.

-Ella Wheeler-Wilcox

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

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you pick up speed.

-Charles M. Schultz

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

-Collette

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

- Richard L Evans

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

- Lilly Tomlin

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

- Hodding Carter

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

- William Inge

Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.

- J.P. Greaves

A single sunbeam
is enough to drive away many shadows.

- St. Francis of Assisi

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness—these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

- F.W. Robertson

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.

- Mignon McLaughlin

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us...Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

- Mother Teresa

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

- John Ruskin

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

- Tom Stoppard

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

- Christopher Morley

One must care about a world one will never see.

- Bertrand Russell
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

- Vincent Van Gogh

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

- Ann Landers
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

- Pete Seeger

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

- Albert Pike

Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.

- Henry S. Haskins

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.

- William Feather

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

- Woody Allen

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

- Dorothy Nevill

Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

- R.E. Shay

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

- Muhammad Ali

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

- Yiddish proverb

If you are going through hell...keep going.

- Winston Churchill

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

- Alexis Carrel
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

- Epictetus

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

- Henri Bergson

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.

- Anna Quindlen

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

- William S. Halsey

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

- Bertha von Suttner

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.

- Mark McGinnis

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

- Bruce Crampton
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

- Henry Ford

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

- Kahlil Gibran

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

- Oliver Goldsmith

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

- Victor Hugo

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway.

- John Wayne

Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

- Lillian Smith

You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

- Eva Jessye

When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

- Sufi epigram

Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again.

- Yogi Bhajan

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

- Carl Bard

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

- Richard Nelson

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

- Harold Whitman

This one isn't a quote...but I LOVE it!!

Feelings

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived:

Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others including Love.

One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink so
all repaired their boats and left.

Love was the only one who stayed -- Love wanted to persevere until the
last possible moment.

When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat.

Love said,"Richness, can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No,
I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place
here for you."

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful
vessel, "Vanity, please help me!".

"I can't help you Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity
answered.

Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness, let me go with
you."

"Oh...Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"

Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even
hear when Love called her!

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an
elder.

Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder
her name.

When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Love realized
how much he owed the elder and asked Knowledge (another elder):

"Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is
capable of understanding how great Love is."

Author Unknown

You can feel inferior without being jealous but you can&#8217;t feel jealous without being inferior.

Even dirty water quenches thirst.

Friends can hurt you more than your enemies ever can.

Fear of something happening to you is only rational if you cannot prevent it.

Every crisis has three parts, first, uncovering, second, discovering, third, recovering.

The harm you can experience by confronting anything you fear is not as great as the harm you experience by avoiding it.

Love without sacrifice is heart without soul.

The wisest among us are consumed by nothing.

Knowing what is false can be more important than knowing what is true.

Failure usually teaches you more than success.

Be good and you&#8217;ll be lonesome.

The disdain we have for selfish people always carries with it a trace of admiration and even envy that we ourselves cannot do what we want and take what we want so easily unrestrained and unburdened by conscience.

The costliest form of happiness is that which is purchased at another&#8217;s expense.

The world would be better off with less sainthood and more common decency.

Fortune does not answer to the call of justice, but to the call of whim.

Love usually won&#8217;t kill you, but it does take prisoners.