Famous People
Here find a short biography, and words said by famous people to inspire and encourage. The inspirational quotes found here are ones that have been passed down year after year, and then there are those that are fairly recent - but all are inspiring. Each month you will find a brief biography of the famous person and their collection of quotes and sayings. You will find inspirational people from all walks of life - teachers, speakers, researchers, writers, actors, poets, presidents to name only a few. Many times over the years we have found people who we wanted to read more about after we read their quotation. We hope you enjoy the inspirational words of these people.This months featured famous person:
Enjoy these inspirational Alexander Graham Bell quotes. Famous for the invention of the telephone. Be motivated by his words.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. Alexander Graham Bell
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. Alexander Graham Bell
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More famous people, their story and words:
Ansel Adams
Louisa May Alcott
Muhammad Ali - "You can`t hit what you can`t see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!" Muhammad Ali
Maya Angelou - "Yet it is only love which sets us free." Maya Angelou
Susan B. Anthony
Wally Amos
Aristotle "Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient." Aristotle
Richard Bach
Bernard Baruch
Henry Ward Beecher
Jack Benny
Milton Berle
Yogi Berra
Ambrose Bierce
Kenneth Blanchard
Erma Bombeck
Tom Brokaw
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Leo Buscaglia
Deepak Chopra Quotes - "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." Deepak Chopra
Calvin Coolidge
Bill Cosby - "Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing." Bill Cosby
G. K. Chesterton
Andrew Carnegie
Dale Carnegie
Confucius - "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." Confucius
Ann Coulter
Bette Davis - "I survived because I was tougher than anybody else." Bette Davis
Charles Dickens
Phyllis Diller
Walt Disney
Benjamin Disraeli
Peter Drucker
Bob Dylan - "Blame it on a simple twist of fate." Bob Dylan
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Clint Eastwood - A good man always knows his limitations." Clint Eastwood
Thomas Edison - "There's a way to do better... find it."Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Dwight Eisenhower
Ralph Waldo Emerson - "The man who can make hard things easy is the educator." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Linda Evans
Thomas Fuller
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin - "When you're finished changing, you're finished." Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes 2 - "One today is worth two tomorrows." Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes 3 - "I didn't fail the test, I just found 1000 ways to do it wrong." Benjamin Franklin
Gandhi - "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." Gandhi
Charles de Gaulle
John Paul Getty
Arnold H. Glasgow
Billy Graham - "Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think." Billy Graham
Edgar Guest
Alexander Hamilton
Sydney J. Harris
George Harrison
Napoleon Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Lou Holtz
Bob Hope
Elbert Hubbard
Aldous Huxley
Washington Irving
Michael Jordan Famous Quotes
Martin Luther King - "I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King.
Charles F. Kettering
Dalai Lama - "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." Dalai Lama
Carl Lewis
Abraham Lincoln - "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." Abraham Lincoln
Vince Lombardi - "Mental toughness is essential to success." Vince Lombardi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nelson Mandela - "There is no such thing as part freedom." Nelson Mandela
Margaret Mead
Arthur Miller - "I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self." Arthur Miller
Marilyn Monroe
Anais Nin
Barach Obama - "Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference." Barach Obama
Satchel Paige
Joe Paterno
Norman Vincent Peale
Tom Peters
Plato - "When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself." Plato
Catherine Pulsifer
Ronald Reagan - "Every new day begins with possibilities." Ronald Reagan
Jean Paul Richter
Pat Riley
Anthony Robbins
Jim Rohn
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt - "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!" Theodore Roosevelt
Bertrand Russell - "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." Bertrand Russell
Babe Ruth
Ayn Rand - " The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt." Ayn Rand
Charles Schulz
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
W. Clement Stone
Adam Smith
Jonathan Swift
Elizabeth Taylor
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Brian Tracy
Mark Twain - "I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one." Mark Twain
Denis Waitley
Sam Walton
William Arthur Ward
George Washington
Oprah Winfrey
John Wooden
William Butler Yeats
Zig Ziglar
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