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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
Topic: Hypocrisy
Author: Lord Byron
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.
Topic: Sin
Author: Thomas Moore
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Topic: History
Author: Charles J Givens
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
Topic: Beds
Author: Nicholas Breton
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Topic: Change
Author: Shunryu Suzuki
Did ever raven sing so like a lark That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?
Topic: Ravens
Author: William Shakespeare
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!
Topic: Nightingales
Author: William Shakespeare
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Topic: Philanthropy
Author: Edward Gibbon
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.
Topic: Leadership
Author: James L Fisher
Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: D A Benton
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Topic: Attitude
Author: Arthur Ashe
People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Grenville Kleiser
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Confucius
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Topic: All About the Self
Author: Millicent Fenwick
Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
Topic: Government
Author: Werner Finck
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Mike Royko
Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.
Topic: Anger
Author: Susan Sullivan
But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
Topic: Kisses
Author: Francis Beaumont