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Inspirational Quotes

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Winston Churchill

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.

Walt Whitman

Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.

Voltaire

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.

Peace Pilgrim

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.

Lord Moran

I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

Martha Washington

Above all to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Erich Fromm

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Harvey Mackay

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

This is the first day, of the rest of your life.

Unknown

If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Anonymous

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes

Thomas Jefferson

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Robert Half

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Mark Twain

Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.

John P. Strelecky

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen Covey

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Robert Woodruff

Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !

Thomas Edison

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahil Gibran

Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

Bill Moyers

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".

Winston Churchill

The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Winston Churchill

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy

Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.

Marcus Wareing

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.

Victor Hugo

Life is a do-it yourself project.

Dennis Waitley

Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.

Confucius

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

Anthony Robbins

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Zig Ziglar

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.

Thomas Edison

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Robert H. Schuller

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Anonymous

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Thomas Edison

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."

Joe Flacco

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.

Danish Proverb

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.

Gerald J. Simmons

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napolean Bonaparte

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Charles F. Kettering

"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.

Joe Flacco

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.

Russian Proverb

A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Chinese Proverb

Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Dottie Walters

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

Stephen Covey

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Socrates

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Unknown

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.

Martha Washington

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar