Inspirational Quotations

This is the “I wish I’d said that!” post.

Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on January 15, 2008 at 10:42am

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG. - Bill Gates

Permalink Reply by Gail Lancaster on January 22, 2008 at 7:24pm

He that would be a leader must be a bridge. - Welsh proverb

Permalink Reply by Terry Ballard on February 28, 2008 at 5:21pm

The main difference between and cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on February 29, 2008 at 8:20am

Two for one special:

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Plato

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. - Gloria Steinem

Permalink Reply by Terry Ballard on February 29, 2008 at 9:45am

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on March 3, 2008 at 8:30am

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. - Raisa M. Gorbachev

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on March 4, 2008 at 12:38pm

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. - Paul Gauguin

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on June 3, 2008 at 4:19pm

Culture depends not on what it gives but on what it demands of humanity. - Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on July 1, 2008 at 2:53pm

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of youth and childhood: it must also be married to a passion of the adult being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death. – Rollo May

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on August 5, 2008 at 2:14pm

I was standing today in a dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place. Everything else was almost pitch-black. I was seeing the beam, not seeing things by it.

Then I moved, so that the beam fell on my eyes. Instantly the whole previous picture vanished. I saw no toolshed, and (above all) no beam. Instead I saw, framed in the irregular cranny at the top of the door, green leaves moving on the branches of a tree outside and beyond that, ninety-odd million miles away, the sun. Looking along the beam, and looking at the beam are very different experiences. – C. S. Lewis

(I’ve been on a C.S. Lewis kick lately!)

Permalink Reply by Kevin Griffith on August 28, 2008 at 1:45pm

Great legends are usually people who die young because they didn’t live long enough to spoil their image. – Ed Limato

Permalink Reply by Martin Suraba on December 28, 2008 at 7:36am