Motivational Quotes and Inspirational Sayings

My name will probably never be mentioned with the great inspirational motivational speakers of our day. I am afraid I will never be renowned as one to articulate my thoughts in such a way that would evoke feelings of great passion and move masses to action. However, I do love inspirational and motivational quotes and speeches. There are few things that I enjoy as much as watching inspiring films and reading motivational books. I am always looking for inspiring words to live by.

When one thinks of motivational and inspirational quotes and sayings, there is no better source than the trio of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Langhorne Clemens whose pen name was, none other than, Mark Twain. These men were not only leaders in their generation but the motivational words they spoke have certainly outlived them.

The following is a compilation of quotes from these great American heroes. As you read the words of these men I hope you find yourself motivated and inspired. If you get a good laugh out of their words of wisdom that would be a definite plus as well

1. Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

2. When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

3. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

4. War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

5. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

6. It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

7. No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

8. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

9. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

10. It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

1. When you're finished changing, you're finished.

2. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

3. Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

4. Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

5. Never confuse motion with action.

6. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

7. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong

8. If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

9. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

10. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

1. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

2 Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

3 Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

4. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

5. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

6. I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

7. If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

8. If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

9. It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

10. Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.