inspirational quotes to youth

knowledge of the past is the key to understanding the future...(?)

if its what your looking for...

I feel a healthy mix of new technology with the knowledge of the past is a good balance, for future Engineering of projects

"When you are through learning, you are through." I do not know who originated this quote, however, when I was 16 years old my high school football coach had this on the wall in his office. I made up my mind then, if I learn something today that I did not know yesterday, then my day is a success.

oldgolfer

That's cool - I never realized it did that ! Thought it was just one per day Just goes to show, we live and learn

Sharp Kris, just when you think you have a handle on this site, it just gets sweeter. Everytime I go to a new page too. CJM

Why, thank you.

I just tried out this quote on my daughter. I said to her, "Scroll to the bottom of the page and refresh a few times." She seemed uninspired. Maybe my inflection was all wrong.

I'm surprised she didn't slap you for suggesting she needed a wash and a change of clothes. Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger.

CR4 quote of the day;

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -- Samuel Johnson

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Oh what a dilema......

"Rules are made for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" -- Douglas Badar

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt 1937

One of my favorites has been attributed to Mark Twain - "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "

Here's the link to his site, which has something on lots of subjects.

http://www.twainquotes.com/index.html

Here are many I've saved from all kinds of sites:

"Our background and circumstances may have influencedwho we are, but we are responsible for who we become."

-- Unknown

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

--MarcelProust, Author

"A great attitude does much more than turn on thelights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect usto all sorts of

serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed." -- EarlNightingale

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get runover if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers

"It's nice to be important; but it's more important to be nice."
-- Unknown

"Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty."

-- Denis Waitley

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another."

-- Helen Keller

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

--Jeremy Taylor

It will be a foretaste of heaven to us here below, if we are able to thank God for all His infinite goodness with all out

hearts. --Ottokar Prohaszka

Thought for the week: "You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept."

-- Unknown

On a church bulletin board: "God does not believe in atheists; therefore atheists do not exist."

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions,

temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." -- Aristotle,Philosopher

"Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution." -- Vance Havner

"When I get to heaven, I shall see three wonders there. The first wonder will be to see many there whom I did not expect to

see; the second wonder will be to miss many people whom I did expect to see; and the third and greatest of all will be to

find myself there." -- John Newton

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

-- William Wordsworth

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"A positive attitude is perhaps more important at home than anywhere else. As spouses and parents, one of our most vital

roles is to help those we love feel good about themselves." -- Keith Harrell

"Whoever wishes to understand fully the words of Christ must try to pattern his whole life on that of Christ."

--Thomas á Kempis

"Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather

feel contrition than know how to define it." --Thomas á Kempis

"It is vanity to wish for long life and to care little about a well-spent life."
--Thomas á Kempis

"On the Day of Judgment, surely we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have

spoken but how well we have lived.
--Thomas á Kempis

"So while God may not ask you on Judgment Day if you read 'The Imitation of Christ,' He will examine how Christ-like a

lifestyle you have lived." --Chuck Colson

His mercy is everlasting,And His truth endures to all generations.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. --Horace Mann

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen. The saddest are these:" It might have been!""

A solemn regard to spiritual and eternal things is an in-dispensable element of all true greatness. --Daniel Webster

If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by someONE or someTHING else. --Eric Liddell

No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself. --Thomas a Kempis

"The deeper one penetrates into nature's secrets, the greater becomes one's respect for God." -- Albert Einstein

"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and

behaviors grow out of these [often false] assumptions." -- Stephen Covey

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich

according to what he is, not according to what he has." -- Henry Ward Beecher

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

-- Walt Disney

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

-- Charles Kettering

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listIf others do not

encourage us, let us encourage ourselvesin the Lord. A. Soutter en." -- Winston Churchill

"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that

makes things possible." -- --Henry Ford

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard toearn money as to spend it well. --Charles H. Spurgeon

There is no comparison between that which is lost by notsucceeding and that which is lost by not trying.

--Francis Bacon

"Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected."
-- William Safire in The New York Times Magazine

"Getting people to do more than they would do on their own is leadership in a nut-shell." -- Ray Lammie

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." -- Anonymous

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than you think." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." -- Henry Ford

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests." -- John Stuart Mill

Empathy--your pain in my heart. --Jess Lair

If others do not encourage us, let us encourage ourselvesin the Lord. --A. Soutter

"What could God accomplish through you if He had your undivided attention and loyalty?" --Charles Stanley

"When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new

life." -- Christopher Morley, 1890-1957, Novelist, Journalist and Poet

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are

never, ever the same. -- Unknown

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." -- Earl Nightingale

"Success is the ability to embrace a worthwhile goal and then employ all of your powers for the achievement of that goal."

-- Armstrong

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." -- Sophocles

"It takes a lifetime to prepare a sermon because it takes a lifetime to prepare a man of God." -- Arthur Wood

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." -- Thomas Szasz

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves."

-- Tyron Edwards

"If your lips you'd keep from slips / Five things observe with care / To whom you speak / of whom you speak / and how

and when and where." -- Unknown

"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be." -- Harvey Mackay

"So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied." -- Helen Keller

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves." -- Dwight Eisenhower

"A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and

be undaunted when the going gets rough." -- Ronald Reagan

"The devil is content that people should excel in good works, provided he can but make them proud of them."

-- William Law

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life."

-- William A. Ward

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." -- Unknown

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals—that is what keeps a man patient

when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." -- Honore De Balzac

"It is not what you say you believe that is important, but what you model, encourage, reward and let happen."

-- Patricia Fripp

"Companies with clear written statements of values and principles are more dynamic and profitable than those without.

People, too." -- Brian Tracy

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." --Thomas Jefferson

"There will always be more people willing to do 'great' things for God than there are people willing to do the little things.

The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants." --Rick Warren

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "

I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying." -- Dolly Parton

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." -- George Woodberry

"The years teach much which the days never knew." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"The finest flowers are often found growing in the soil of sorrow." -- G. B. Duncan

Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in theworld. --Ralph Cudworth

I think this one is most excellent.

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Ghandi

www,Nightingale.com

the link there sends a new quote of inspiration or motivation daily.

Enjoy, CJM

You can sign up for daily email quotes here also;

http://www.nightingale.com/

The best way to keep up is to stay ahead.

It isn't what you have that counts, it's what you do with it.

Most rules can be summed up in two words: Play nice!

Read the sky, taste the wind, find the storm... dodge the lightning!

Numbers don't lie, but they don't tell the whole story either.

Knowing how to operate the controls doesn't mean you know how to operate the machine.

All quotes courtesy of 3Doug

Yester years - " a man is known by the shoes he wears". So we'd keep our shoes polished.

Today - kid after polishing only front of his shoes says, " I'm only concerned of what people think of me when I enter the room and not when i leave"

As you are now....

"Look after your kids, they choose your retirement home"

"Babies are wrinkly, so are old folk. Make the most of what's between"

"One day, son, this will all be yours...."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oh, gawd, I'm being too negative....

It's easy to fight when everything's right,
And you're mad with the thrill and the glory;
It's easy to cheer when victory's near,
And wallow in fields that are gory.
It's a different song when everything's wrong.
When you're feeling infernally mortal;
When it's ten against one, and hope there is none,
Buck up, little soldier, and chortle:
Carry on! Carry on!
There isn't much punch in your blow.
You're glaring and staring and hitting out blind;
You're muddy and bloody, but never mind.
Carry on! Carry on!
You haven't the ghost of a show.
It's looking like death, but while you've a breath,
Carry on, my son! Carry on!
And so in the strife of the battle of life
It's easy to fight when you're winning;
It's easy to slave, and starve and be brave,
When the dawn of success is beginning.
But the man who can meet despair and defeat
With a cheer, there's a man of God's choosing;
The man who can fight to Heaven's own height
Is the man who can fight when he's losing.
Carry on! Carry on!
Things never were looming so black.
But show that you haven't a cowardly streak,
And though you're unlucky you never are weak.
Carry on! Carry on!
Brace up for another attack.
It's looking like hell, but - you never can tell;
Carry on, old man! Carry on!
There are some who drift out in the deserts of doubt,
And some who in brutishness wallow;
There are others, I know, who in piety go
Because of a Heaven to follow.
But to labor with zest, and to give of your best,
For the sweetness and joy of the giving;
To help folks along with a hand and a song;
Why, there's the real sunshine of living.
Carry on! Carry on!
Fight the good fight and true;
Believe in you mission, greet life with a cheer;
There's big work to do, and that's why you are here.
Carry on! Carry on!
Let the world be the better for you;
And at last when you die, let this be your cry:
Carry on, my soul! Carry on!
Robert W. Service

Oops, that's a whole darn song, but if you insert belief system of choice it's nice.

"So it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut

For all your days prepare,

and meet them ever alike:

When you are the anvil, bear:

When you are the hammer, strike.

-Edwin Marham

I always liked this simple one. K T

Edwin Markham--Sorry

Write "ME" on a cardboard and put it on a mirror vertically.