Inspirational Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.




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The Winners Quotes

For many people winning is everything and is certainly the key to success at any level. Here are my favourite quotes and sayings on how you can gain a successful winning mentality ,and how people view those with a winning attitude.

Winning Quotes

If we don't win we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Caldwell

You might have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher.

The more I win the more I want it.Ayrton senna

I like to win, I despise myself for that, but it is all there is. Paul Newman.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you liked it. Anon.

Winning is a drug. Once you have experienced it you cannot live without it.Bernard Hunt.

There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.Alfred Hitchcock

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Arthur Ashe.

Winning is only important in war and surgery. Al McGuire.

Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it. Leo Dororcher.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. Larry Bird.

It signifies nothing to play well and lose.Thomas Fuller.

It doesn't matter wether you win or lose. what matters is wether I win or lose.Harold Villiers

Win the last point . Jim Courier.

Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning? Ivern Ball

If you live long enough, you will see that every victory turns into defeat.Simone de Beauvoir.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not wining,but taking part......The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Baron Piere de Courbin.

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared. George Allen.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society. Vince Lombardi.

I'm a winner, people find that stern I find what I have to be.Once I get in the ring, I will do What I have to do to win. Chris Eubank.

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After watching Oscar Pistorious in the London Olympic Games, I think many people will be inspired by his great quote, and certainly make it my quote of the day.

A loser isn't the person who gets involved and finishes last. A loser  is the person who doesn't get involved in the first place.  - Oscar Pistorious.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -Robert G. Ingersoll

When money enters sport, corruption is sure to follow. E N Gardiner US Sportswriter

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The Olympics Quotes

2012 Olympics

London is the next city to stage theOlympics in 2012, it has also staged the Olympics previously in1948 and 1908.

It is a great honour for a city to host the Olympic games, but it isn't always plain sailing. Here are some of my favourite quotes for the Olympics and the cities.

The Olympics Quotes

When we stage the Olympics (London) it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.Daley Thompson.

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined. Pierre de Coubertin.

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people. Alexander Haig.

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Best Life Quotes-Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain had many great words of wisdom on a whole variety of subjects .Many Mark Twain quotes have become the most quoted quotes.

Twain was a very cosmopolitan gentleman, a great writer,  philosopher, poet,and a true genius.Mark Twain's thoughts still have a great relevance to us all today.

Mark Twain Quotes
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

In fact, the more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink-- under any circumstances.

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Top Ten Lance Armstrong Quotes

Lance Armstrong is the prolific seven times winner of the Tour de France and regarded by many peoples the greatest cyclist of the modern era.

As well as being a successful athlete the record-breaking Lance Armstrong has also made a full recovery from cancer.Read the best Lance Armstrong Quotes.

1. Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, you have to fight.
2. No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it.
3. Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
4. I hate losing at anything, whether it be cards, golf or whatever.
5. When you can’t remember something, there’s a reason why. I’ve blocked out much of what I thought and felt the morning of my brain surgery.
6. In my first big international race, I did everything my coach told me not to do.
   
7. There had been two journeys really: the journey to get to the tour, and then the journey of the tour itself.
   
8. I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
   
9.  At the end of the day, it's me versus the other guys. That's what keeps me going.
10. To be afraid is a priceless education.

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1. The deepest you is the nothing side, is the side which you don't know.  Alan Watts.
2. The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.  Salvadore Dali.
3. Sometimes I think the surest sign that that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.  Bill Watterson.
4. What is essential is invisible to the eye.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
5. You've made your bed,now go bounce on it.  Peter Scott.
6. The garden is so ferociously sexy at night, it's almost lurid.  Anne Raver.
7. You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.  Ayn Rand.
8. We have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.  Epictetus.
9. I would have made a good Pope.  Richard Nixon.
10. If you fall out of that window and break your legs don't come running to me.  Groucho Marx.

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More than  60 million human lives were lost during the Second world war, and Winston Churchill described it as the"most unnecessary war in history."

 The USA declared war on the UK in 1912 over territory in Canada and it was the first time they had declared war on another Nation.Today the two Nations have established a valuable partnership of trust and support.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.   Jaques Chirac.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Adolf Hitler.

War is not nice.  Barbara Bush.

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Football managers come and go in the world of football, but we all like to hear their comments.

They can be giving their opinion on the chairmen,players or their fellow managers.Many of these quotes are regarding the pressures of football management.

There is no crisis here.Just panic. - John Docherety, Millwall manager, after seven consecutive defeats.

Pressure , you are under pressure in war zones not football.   Authur Cox.

If I wasn't the manager I would have gone home early. Alex Miller Hibs manager after a 0-0 draw.

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Top Twenty Music Quotes-The Beatles

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We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic. Ringo Starr.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.  John Lennon.

I'm really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding. Paul McCartney.

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The Best Life Quotes-Top Twenty Funny Quotes on Alcohol.

Beer makes you smarter . It made Bud wiser.  Brendan Behan.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. Mark Twain.

I only drink to make seem more interesting people. George Jean Nathan.

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I like playing in Sheffield, it's full of melancholy happy go lucky people.

Snooker has gone down the tubes. It has been run by friends of friends who couldn't organise a raffle.

Alex Higgins was one of the real inspirations behind me getting into snooker in the first place. Ronnie O' Sullivan.


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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. Phyllis Diller.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens.

If you refuse a mince pie at Christmas dinner, you will have bad luck for the coming day.

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Everybody knows some one who is a little larger than life, and with an ego to match. If they can't laugh at themselves may be they can laugh at these funny ego quotes.

Twenty Funny Ego Quotes

But enough of me, let's talk about you.What do you think of me. Bette Midler.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. Lucille S Harper.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great. Golda Meir.

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Money and life

Money, money, money. It is everywhere in our lives and it can change your life.Here are some more quick money quotes from some famous people who made money count for them and it certainly changed their lives.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. Robert Graves

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. Anon

I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966.

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The Best Life Quotes-Twenty Great Quotes on Time

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Many of us will probably agree time is something we never seem to have enough of, there aren't enough hours in the day.

We take time for granted and little realise what time means to us.

MY favourite time quote comes from historian Will Durant; "Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty -four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.Albert Einstien.

Time is not a road- It's a room.  John Fowles.

The world was made, not  in time, but simultaneously with time. There was no time before the world. Saint Agustine.

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Top Twenty Formula 1 Quotes-The Grand Prix Winners

Top Twenty Formula 1 Quotes-The Grand Prix Winners

F1 Champions

To win a Grand Pix is every professional Formula One motor racing drivers ambition. Some of the great drivers have passed the chequered flag first on many occasions and some just once.

Michael Schumacher has the most Grand Prix wins with 91 victories. Read on for some of the great quotes from the great racing drivers.

I think I've proved that, in equal cars, if I want someone to stay behind me... well, I think he stays behind..Gilles Villeneuve.

Driving in Monte Carlo is like riding a bike in your house.   Nelson Piquet.

Faldo's got more nerve than me. I couldn't do what he does.Golfers are visible to everyone , their job is harder than mine. Nigel Mansell.

Racing drivers have balls, unfortunately, none of them are crystal. David Coulthard.

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The Movies

Everyone in the Movie businessfrom the best director to the worst actor wants to win an Oscar, and of course not all of them will win an Oscar. But if there was an Oscar for funny movie quotes , these would make some great nominations!

What do I look for in a good script? Days off. Robert Mitchum.

The only problem I have with film festivals are the films. Duane Byrge.

If my film makes one more person miserable. I've done my job. Woody Allen.

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