Inspirational Quotes

Wether it be on the road, the internet,  or a public bathroom, when I run into an inspirational or just plain cool quote, I collect it.  Got any quotes that you think I may want to add to my collection?  Email them to me.  Alex@adowns.com



"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... who strives valiantly, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in worthy causes. Who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
--T. Roosevelt



"Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, we readily believe."
--
Demosthenes



"Man is only truly great when acts from the passions."
--B. Disraeli



"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson



"All love that has not friendship for it's base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
--E. Wilcox



"The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved; the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
Jack Kerouac



"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true "
-Woodrow Wilson



"Happiness is not something owed you.  Nobody is handed joy on a silver platter.  Instead you make your own happiness, knowing it is an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice."
--Dennis Waitley and Remi L. Witt



"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
--Pablo Picasso



"Do what you should do, when you should do it, wether you like it or not."  Self discipline is the master key to all riches.  The strength of will to force yourself to pay the price of success, to do what others don't like to do, to go the extra mile, to fight and win the lonely battle with yourself--that's in the final analysis, the only way to make your dreams come true.  Success in tons of discipline.
--Napoleon Hill