For anyone who doesn’t know what this is, it is a set of inspirational quotes that I deliver every day on Twitter. I have been doing it for a few months and it’s my way of adding value to my followers. If you would like to read the others you can find a Collection of Twinspiration Oct. 10 – Nov. 10 and you can also follow me @jimminy.
“A true gentleman is calm and at ease; the Small man is fretful and ill at ease.” ~ Confucius, The Analects Book VII, Verse 36
“What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ~ Albert Pine
“One’s gratitude is a far greater judge of character than one’s attitude.”
“We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.” ~ Horace
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
“There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” ~ Arthur Rubinstein
“In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The world doesn’t revolve around me (or you), but by people caring for others.” ~ A Life Defined By Death
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” ~ Hellen Keller
“Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.” ~ Herman Melville
“In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.” ~ George Macdonald
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Today is not the time to be thankful for what we have accomplished and have individually, but what we can accomplish and share together.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ~ Voltaire
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.” ~ Ian Malcolm
“Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” ~ Shakespeare
“Little things you take for granted may be something huge and astounding to someone who doesn’t experience them every day.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” ~ Confucius
“Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.” ~ Randy Pausch
“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and help us. Just as surely our unwise acts follow us to plaque and torment us.” ~ George Clason
“We were making the future,” he said, “and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!” ~ H.G. Wells