Inspirational Quotes to Ponder!

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Associate yourself with men/women of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George Washington.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein

I believe a marriage should be monogamous. If you have to go somewhere else for sex, then why be married?
Calvin Klein

Having sex with three people or five people isn't really as great as sex with someone you're really in love with.
Calvin Klein

If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
Calvin Klein

I don't think any 16- or 17-year-old should experience sexual intercourse.
Calvin Klein

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
Catherine Deneuve

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
Catherine Deneuve

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.
Catherine Deneuve

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
Catherine Deneve

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
Sophia Loren

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
Sophia Loren

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Princess Diana

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
Princess Diana

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Princess Diana

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana

Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Princess Diana

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
Princess Diana

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
Princess Diana

I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
Princess Diana

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people's hands, people used to be shocked because they'd never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
Princess Diana

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
Princess Diana

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will ever know yourself.
Princess Diana

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
Princess Diana

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
Princess Diana

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
Princess Diana

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
Princess Diana

It's not sissy to show your feeling.
Princess Diana

Life is just a journey.
Princess Diana

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.
Bill Cosby

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Bill Cosby

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is neither heaven nor ******, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Princess Diana

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson