quotes on motivation

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ~Christopher Morley


Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri


The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient. ~Ivan Illich


The biggest liar in the world is They Say. ~Douglas Malloch


Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?" ~Jack Handey


The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money. ~Author Unknown


Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. ~Laplace, Theorie analytique des probabilites, 1820


Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost


The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? ~Benjamin Franklin


Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~John Wayne


I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909


There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~Minnie Aumonier


Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. ~Author Unknown


The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson


The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ~Rebecca West


We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. ~Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930


When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. ~Leo Burnett