Aspire To Something Higher Thought of the Day - Inspirational Quotations

The Capacity For Greatness

shawn — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:09:21 +0000

“Some things have not changed since the dawn of history, and bid fair to last out time itself. One of these things is the capacity for greatness in man–his capacity for being often the master of the event–and sometimes even more–the changer of the course of history itself. This capacity for greatness is a very precious gift, and we are under a danger in our day of stifling it.” -William Clyde de Vane

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It Is Better To Dare Might Things

shawn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:24:13 +0000

“It is better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt

The Doors of Your Soul

shawn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:23:11 +0000

“The ideal life is in our blood and never will be lost. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing–when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do.” -Phillips Brooks

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Inner Satisfaction

shawn — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:22:53 +0000

“You, yourself, have got to see that there is no just interpretation of life except in terms of life’s best things. No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.” -Minot Simons, D.D.

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Seven Crimes

shawn — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:43:36 +0000

Seven crimes:

I don’t think.
I don’t know.
I don’t care.
I am too busy.
I leave well enough alone.
I have no time to read and find out.
I am not interested.

-William J.H. Boetcker

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Be Bold

shawn — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:27:44 +0000

“Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Six Mistakes of Man

shawn — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:06:26 +0000

Six Mistakes of Man:

The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others.
The tendency to worry about things that cannot be corrected.
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying.
Attempting to compel other persons to believe and live as we do.

-Cicero, 106 BC-43 BC

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Success Is Hanging On

shawn — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:25:52 +0000

“Success seems largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” -William Feather

You Can Have Anything You Want

shawn — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:00:10 +0000

“You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” -William Adams

Life Poem

shawn — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:48:59 +0000

Life is a gift to be used every day,
Not to be smothered and hidden away;
It isn’t a thing to be stored in the chest
Where you gather your keepsakes and treasure your best;
It isn’t a joy to be sipped now and then,
And promptly put back in a dark place again.

Life is a gift that the humblest may boast of,
And one that the humblest may well make the most of;
Get out and live it each hour of the day,
Wear it and use it as much as you may;
Don’t keep it in niches and corners and grooves–
You’ll find that in service its beauty improves.
-Edgar A. Guest

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